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Copyright, 1894, 
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INTRODUCTION. 



The poet, Byron, has truthfully said that " Words are 
things j and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a 
thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps 
millions, think." To be self-taught is to be wise, for in- 
vestigation reveals, many times, a new light on an old 
subject quite astonishing to the seeker for truth. Civili- 
zation will progress much faster when reason is cultivated 
and respected as it should be. The presence of the diviner 
may be known when we allow, kindly, another the same 

right to think as ourselves. 

Author. 



CONTENTS. 



Chapter. Subject. Page. 

I. God in Eden. 4 9 

II. Adam 9 

III. Evolution , 10 

IV. Eve 11 

V. Eve Explores the Garden 13 

VI. J WE 15 

VII. A Surprise 16 

VIII. The Dream 19 

IX. Eden Birds 21 

X. The Dream Concluded 23 

XI. Bird in The Cage 25 

XII. Nature Rejoices 26 

XIII. A Stranger 27 

XIV. The Logician 29 

XV. The Key 32 

XVI. God's Sermon in Eden 34 

XVII. Fur Suits 39 

XVIII. Excommunication 40 

XIX. Original Sin 42 

XX. Great Rejoicing 43 

XXI. Sea of Splendor 45 

XXII. Behind the Scenes 47 

XXIII. God Writes a Book 50 

XXIV. The Devil in Spain 51 

XXV. New House 54 

XXVI. The Trinity 56 

XXVLI. The Tropics \. . 5S 

XXVIII. Nemesis 59 

XXIX. Pagans 61 

XXX. The Devil in France. '. 63 

XXXI. Little Cain 66 



CONTENTS. 

Chapter. Subject. Page. 

XXXII. Wine 67 

XXXIII. The Devil in the Arctic Regions. . . 70 

XXXIV. A Mystery 71 

XXXV. Troy 73 

XXXVI. The Devil's Museum 74 

XXXVII. Face to Face. . 77 

XXXVIII. The Devii, Visits the Mammoth Cave 80 

XXXIX Abel S3 

XL. The Devil in England 84 

XLI. The Brothers 86 

XLII. The Devil in America 89 

XIvIII. Fate 92 

XLIV. Liberty 95 



PAUT SECOND. 

Chapter. Subject. Page. 

I. The Books of Moses 99 

II. Maledictions 114 

III. Sunday Laws 117 

IV. The Pedigree of Christianity 132 

V. Bible Errors 148 

VI. Church and State ^ 154 

VII. The Clouds of Great Glory. 180 

VIII. Prayer 191 

IX. Temperance ' 196 

X. Tobacco 200 

XI. Symbols 201 

XII. Eden of Glory 202 







" The woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink 
Together > dwarfed or godlike, bond or free." 

— Tennyson. 



THE 

NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 



CHAPTER I. 

God in Eden. 

God walked amid the ferny bowers; 
Entombed was earth with beauteous flowers. 
He viewed the mountain, plain and wood; 
With rapture said : " My work is good ! 
A man I'll make this sunny day, 
From out this wondrous pile of clay/ ' 
A genii in some lofty tree 
Sang out that " Life's a mystery. 
Then why make Adam from the sand 
When you wrought continents most grand 
From nothing ? How about a void, 
When matter cannot be destroyed ? " 



CHAPTER II. 

Adam. 

The "Garden of Eden" was really quite pretty — 

A home for his man in this wonderful city. 

God pondered gravely o'er his ideal man, 

And thought of results he would now like to scan; 

Therefore, as the artist when greatly inspired, 

Grasps the pencil ere the vision's retired, 

Being quite enchanted with his blissful dream, 

Would no longer delay his godly scheme. 

Then the statue of earth he dried in the sun, 

Breathed in his nostrils, and Adam was done I 



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CHAPTER III. 

Evolution. 

As Adam walked 'round, astonished at seeing 
That a life so strange should jump into being 
So quickly, so real at one immense bound, 
No wonder he was lost in meshes profound, 
Of a bewildering sense of life " in the bud, 
Metamorphosed from black, sticky mud. 
la quite a short time this same Mr. Adam, 
Was quite lonely without a dear madam. 
The hypnotic sleep no doubt made him weak* 
For -God gashed his side and a rib he did seek. 
By this operation with scalpel or knife, 
The rib was secured to make Adam's new wife t 
He soon completed our dear mother Bve. 
And one more event ere God took his leave: 
He waked Mr. Adam from his lethargic state, 
And brought him to Bye to see his new mate. 
Apollo he seemed by the manifest grace 
Of a natural man, with no evil to trace 
On his weB-formed brow — his beauty to mar, 
Nor sin leave its effects like a physical sea r. 
At first glance he gave he was greatly amazed, 
And he stood transfixed as on her he gazed — ■ 
She like an angel so pure from within. 
Her spotless soul, without a shadow of sin, 
Could plainly be seen by the light of this morn, 
'Twas an opaline glow of Beauty just born. 
God gave to this pair their first introduction, 
And proud was he of his mortal production. 
Said he unto Adam, " This is your dear wife;" 
To Eve, he explained, her true mate during life. 
Adam then kissed his fair Kve on her brow, 
And bride she became by the seal of this vow. 
The bevy of birds in Nature's grand choir 
Sang sweet songs like the notes of the lyre 



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When softly touched by the god of the muses, 

And harmonious sounds all Nature diffuses. 

The acme of life had thus been attained, 

The summit of wisdom so suddenly gained 

In the way of creating a pair divine 

In the realm of being in the mortal line. 

The acme of life is the heavenly strain, 

The summit of wisdom, the gladsome refrain 

Of gods of the air as they whisper along 

The mountains of joy with this burden of song. 

And Orpheus seemed never to tire, 

Nature rejoiced by the touch of his lyre. 

Memnons arose from the magical plain 

And echoed this anthem again and again, 

That life of the man and life of the woman, 

Crowns earthly existence in thus being human. 

The portals in heaven were all left ajar, 

And tidings spread quickly to the uttermost star, 

Till the universe rang with "Song of the Spheres,' ' 

And the chime will be heard through the incoming years- 



CHAPTER IV. 

Eve. 

It was refreshing in Eden at morn — 

No dew-drop reflecting a shadow of scorn; 

Nature so lovely in her mantle of flowers, 

While Eve walked gaily 'mong Eden's fair bowers, 

Quite unconscious of the multitude graces 

Centered in self as the mother of races. 

She gathered the flowers from the tree and the vine, 

And branches also from the cypress and pine. 

"The beautiful cypress" an emblem shall be 

Through ages to come of immortality. 

Again, she exclaimed, the tall, graceful pine, 

For the reason 'tis so exceedingly fine, 



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In future its symbol shall ever be known 
As a type of the soul where e'er it is grown. 
Eve found another shade of the green, 
As pretty a color as any I ween, 
■ It is myrtle she inadvertently said, 
And with it she crowned her beautiful head. 
She then was as pretty as pretty could be, 
A veritable Venus ''sprung up from the Sea." 
Around our fair Eve was a gleaming parterre, 
From lowliest shrub to symmetrical fir. 
'Twas a mirror in which sweet Fancy could trace 
Such forms as these in Beauty's embrace — 
The grotto, the altar, statue and fountain; 
The terrace arose, a miniature mountain, 
All glowing with flowers arrayed in full bloom, 
A vista in which was the sweetest perfume. 
Eve now was enchanted with Nature's boudoir. 
11 Ever be kind" was a voice heard from afar, 
Which came like music from some distant clime, 
But told not its meaning at this happy time. 
She gave the flowers she held in her hand 
A kiss of delight, for some fairy-like wand 
Passed o'er them, and revealed to her view, 
The love of our Father and Mother — God, too. 
Nature speaks volumes of love in her eyes, 
Through all of her forms and in whatever guise 
She may be arrayed, whether sunshine or shower, 
In the starry midnight or morn's early hour, 
Whether in rock, in the mountain or bird, 
The songster's sweet voice or when thunder is heard 
To peal forth in tones in lofty disdain 
Of the mountain's high crest, or valley and plain. 
Eve's joy was like the Sebago's lone lake, 
Where never was known e'en a ripple to break 
The mirror of waters — so deep in her heart 
There nestled a dove, which a peace did impart. 
She presently took from her splendid bouquet 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 13 

A lotus, a pink one, and wondered the way 

In which it was clothed; she did greatly admire 

The work of the Artist, and then would aspire 

To know more of the soul and sense of all things — 

A vast source of joy which true knowledge e'er brings. 



CHAPTER V. 

Eve Explores tlie Garden. 

Eve had been preparing the evening repast. 

In the glow of the sunset a glory was cast 

O'er her features, and by its reflection 

No shadow yet seen by the closest inspection 

A heart full of pleasure, whose joy was replete ; 

And soon Adam would come for something to eat. 

Eve was rewarded, for Adam was seen 

Coming to dine with this radiant queen : 

The table was built of the rose and the vine, 

The daisies, marmosa, and white columbine. 

She had prepared in her own dainty way 

The figs that she found on that singular day ; 

Pomegranates, also, on the table were spread, 

So tempting were they with their color so red. 

This paradise feast was truly ornate, 

For all kinds of fruit graced every plate, 

Save one, the apple, which was left on the tree; 

For knowledge, as ordered, was never to be 

For Adam and Kve. So then Kve to him said: 

41 I took a long walk, and somehow was led 

To the prettiest spot in this garden to me, 

Direct to the home of the fine apple-tree. 

Interest increased, as I gave a long look, 

'Twas like reading lines from a beautiful book; 

Kvery leaf tremulous, and letters of gold 

Shone from each leaflet with a power untold. 

1 Knowledge is power,' and this tree will bequeath 



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To the children of earth the green, fadeless wreath 

Of knowledge and wisdom, of power and love; 

This is my mission in this Bdenly grove. 

I fain would rest in its delectable shade, 

But still roamed onward in a wonderful glade, 

And soon I came to a very high fence — 

The gate being locked, I could not stray hence. 

I saw many strange things — such fishes and frogs, 

From graceful beasts to the ugliest hogs. 

The cranes jumped around, were trying to dance, 
Some horses would neigh, while others would prance; 
-Strangest of all were the monkeys' grimaces 

As I watched their wizened-up faces. 

Wish 3'ou had been there, for the oddest of all 

Was their cute baby, and, indeed, it was small — 
That would walk around, just like all the rest, 
Turn a somersault oft with baby-like zest. 
The mother, so proud of its feats of success, 
Would kiss her young babe with a mother's caress; 
But beasts of the field came so near to the gate, 
Jumping and roaring, each one with its mate 
That I gladly came home. Please, what did you do, 
Ere it was my fortune to live here with you?" 

Adam's reply was: " For a part of the day 

The beasts of the field in one grand ar-ay, 

Passed by the garden on the fine esplanade, 

And names were given while on this parade. 

How fine these creatures appeared to the sight, 

Not one showing the least sign for a fight ! 

The lion, the panther, the p ; g and the bear, 

From elephant down to the little gray hare, 

All had to be given some kind of a name, 

So that we could know what to call all our game." 

So Eve concluded not to be frightened, 

Confidence gained, her bliss was much heightened; 

She called his attention to luminous skies, 

As a painting transcendent in glittering dyes, 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

The crowning effect of a day of delight, 

Then dropped at that moment the curtain of night. 



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CHAPTER VI. 

Dove. 

As Kve sat watching the lily-white dove, 
That was cooing beside her in accents of love, 
While its fond caresses were dear to her heart, 
She knew not how soon from her pet she must part. 
A bright sylvan fairy in cadence sang low 
A s -ng of sorrow, from the full depths of woe — 
'Twas the sweetest music that Kve had ever heard 
From melody imparted by any Kden bird. 
The dove for a moment to the woodland had flown. 
Dearer and dearer to her heart it had grown; 
But soon it returned, and she wanted to kiss 
Her dear pet, but lo ! there was something amiss, 
'Twas lifeless and cold, and a feeling of dread 
Came o'er her in horror, for Birdie was dead ! 
Where the life, the beauty, the glance of the eye? 
What was the meaning, or what caused it to die? 

Was it a wonder, many ages ago, 

Man in his surprise very gladly would know 

The great mystery attending life's stern decree, 

As in all of its forms find Deity ? 

The face of God he can see everywhere, 

From tiny insect, to the beast in its lair. 

He bowed in reverence to his god in the sun, 

For 'twas the home of the glorified One. 

In this our own day, though possessed with much pride 

For deep erudition that spreads far and wide, 

We find all conditions and stages of mind — 

The Bushman, the lowest in the scale of mankind, 

To the Caucasian's proud entry in fields of renown, 



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Where glisten immortal the seeds he has sown, 
In aiding the progress of man on his way 
From savage midnight to the sunlight of day. 



CHAPTER VII. 

A Surprise. 

As Kve was gazing on the blissful beyond, 

Saw many pictures of which she was fond, 

She said to Adam: " See the landscape's expanse, 

Fresh, new beauties await every glance; 

See, over there is a falling cascade, 

That sparkles in sunlight and never will fade. 

It comes from the mountains, so lofty and grand, 

Then gracefully falls to the bright, silvery sand; 

See how the mountain is kissed by the sky. 

It may be God's home," she expressed with a sigh. 

Just then such a lively commotion arose 

In the trees, that Eve said, " What do you suppose 

Such a great twitter among all of the birds 

Can mean, that sounds like babel of words ? " 

The beasts of the field lent their pro rata of noise, 

A million times worse than so many school-boys. 

The leaves of the trees in a quiver were blown, 

Flashes of light came from places unknown 

By some magic power which made them exert 

All their senses in being alert, 

To try to divine the causes that led 

The beasts and the birds to be in joy or in dread; 

They could not tell which, so in waiting events, 

The3^ stood quite in awe of great Nature's intents. 

The noise of the beasts now began to subside — 

Were thereby transfixed as though stupefied ; 

The " Tree of Life " flashed like the radiant sun, 

And the song-birds chanted their orison. 



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Something was seen in the sky overhead, 

By Adam and Eve, with emotions of dread. 

Was it Phoebus, the great orb of day 

Wishing to give his respects in that way ? 

Or was it Orion away from his throne, 

Hurling his darts in bold search of a bone 

For his hound? Such as this great poacher of space 

Might seek for his game in the whole human race. 

Perhaps it was Taurus escaped from his cage, 

Stamping mid-heaven in anger and rage. 

Still onward it came, with lightning-like speed, 

Direct toward the earth from skyland indeed, 

And at last it rested near Adam and Eve, 

And, lo ! it was God, who stepped forth to receive 

The twain from his electrical car, 

Propelled by will power which shone like a star ! 

Here Adam and Eve, with exceeding great joy, 

As well pleased as a child with a fine new toy, 

Greeted their Father with an unfeigned delight, 

At once more beholding this Father of Might. 

God was well pleased with the work they had done, 

Commandments obeyed as he told them, each one. 

Eve asked her Father if he lived in the sun, 

Or on some mountain when the day-course has run! 

"I'll tell you, my children," the Father replied, 

That I did for ages o'er nothing preside; 

Had no companions in the eons long gone, 

'Till I 'woke and said that something must be done; 

From nought made the earth with all its living host, 

Created the starry heavens along the astral coast 

Of th' Eternal Sea, that never has an end, 

So vast are the realms o'er this ocean's mighty trend. 

You can't believe, my children, how much I had to do 

Ere I fanned ' the breath of life ' into both of you; 

Way up in the heavens I rested for awhile; 

Now I've come to see you to be greeted by your smile. 

Many thanks, my children; how happy you must be 



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For all the fruits and flowers that are growing here for ye !" 
"Yes, M said Eve, M 'tis an Eden, but ere I am aware 
I'm building constantly fine castles in the air. 
It may be wrong, but the truth to you I'll tell: 
The restless thoughts that come to me I often try to quell, 
'Tis vain; they surge along the empire of my soul; 
Like a mighty sea in angry waves they roll; 
'Till life; becomes like a dreamy state profound; 
And looking into space for some sweeter sound, 
To play an instrument with a single key, 
Unlocks no arcana of life's mystery. 
My dear Father, indeed, while I may be wrong, 
In vain I close my ears to this merry song. 
To know more of being — of life in every sense- 
Is the key I wish to carry all the ages hence. 
I realize there's something in the far beyond 
That beckons me come forward, never to despond." 
A glorious nimbus light encircled her fair brow; 
Beautiful she appeared the Father did allow. 
The secret of his feelings the sequel soon will show. 
He wished not his children in any way to know 
The importance of his aim which he first had planned, 
Ere Adam's brow was by the Eden breezes fanned. 

The music of the birds was in a moment hushed 

When the thought he gave to trail her in the dust. 

At least the soul-germs of her nature to aspire, 

To quench this henceforth by cremation's cruel fire; 

Forever she must be as a statue white and cold, 

Or a lady on canvas, a beauty to behold. 

This was her fortune — as a legacy from God, 

And much would be preferred to the carrying of the hod 

By one of Nature's noblemen that can understand 

Ways and Means of life in the economy of our land. 

Light upon the " Tree of Life " began to fade and wane; 

The beasts roared in discord all o'er the earthly plain; 

The sun veiled in darkness cast a gloomy shade 

O'er all the earthland — over all things God had made. 



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CHAPTER VIII. 

i 

The Dream. 

The eclipse was momentary — the sun resumed his sway, 
The noisy beasts were silent, but in a different way 
From God s advent; but were loth to keep 
From speaking in a thunder tone, M Darkness thou shalt 

reap; 
Ignorance is the harvest, if such seeds are sown 
That will yield no wisdom, and knowledge is unknown 
By your children." So the cattle reasoned well 
As they wandered through the woodland o'er mountain, 

plen and dell. % 

Eve, lost in reverie, glances o'er the ground, 

And delighted with the onyx that she found: 

Another rock was pretty, in color gold and white, 

While the quartz shone brightly by its inherent light. 

The golden coin, say many, is the bane of modern pelf; 

Man does not realize it is the self 

That's wrong: let the angel of his being quell 

The monster Evil in life's chaparral; 

Persecution has painted gold quite black, 

Yet is ever ready to fill the empty sack 

With the shining metal, which will ever rise 

A benefactor in the realm of enterprise. 

God sat beside her, and Adam, too, was there— 

A triad for the time, this God and lovely pair. 

Eve in a strange although a thoughtful tone 

Said, " Father, in a dream, I traveled all alone 

To another country o'er amethystine hills, 

And as I this relate, my very being thrills 

With emotion impossible to describe. 

How lovely were the scenes no artist could transcribe 

Their beauty, transported within a jasper wall, 

And minarets and towers were so very tall, 

The brightness was more dazzling than our sun, 



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And all their golden streets were fine to look upon. 

i met a man who said that he would be my guide, 

To see the wonders of this city broad and wide. 

So in we went. ' This is the Capitol,' he said; 

And 'twas so grand I began to dread 

To enter the portal, it was so very fine; 

I was so happy, for I saw a face like thine ! 

But it was so dreary, to see you all alone, 

Sitting there on such a beauteous, golden throne 

With no goddess by your side with whom you may share 

The wealth of your kingdom, or the authors compare 

Was told in the mighty flood of years, 

Souls be wafted to your kingdom by their fears. 

Their great reward was, that fear would make them do 

The task of playing on their harps and ever praising you ! 

Then my guide left me outside the pearly gate, 

I floated onward to another heavenly state; 

Was enraptured with the suburbs of this town. 

Every villa was white as eider-aown. 

The music from the towers in the skies, 

Their chimes was holy as from Paradise. 

By magic I entered all their halls, 

Saw paintings upon their jeweled walls. 

The statues like marble pure and white, 

Perfect in loveliness, like human beings quite; 

Trees in their gardens were eolian in sound; 

Delicious, the airy waves that were wafted all around. 

The perfume of the flowers was as incense given 

In this land which one might call a heaven. 

Then I saw in these supernal homes 

Many goddesses within the temple domes 

On equal terms with the gods of Upper Air, 

Climbing forever progression's golden stair. 

They were busy in the line of doing good, 

With their documents to see whate'er they could 

To ameliorate the causes that underlie the sin 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN, 5 

Of frail mortals in the earthland's fearful din. 

This was told me, but I did not understand, 

Still the waves of harmony striking chords most grand 

On the fibers of my heart till I became another being, 

By the ambient beauty of this most wondrous seeing." 



CHAPTER IX 

Eden Birds. 

At that moment the birds came flitting around 

In the greatest profusion all over the ground. 

The dream for awhile was severed in twain, 

For seeing the birds was a pleasure again; 

The parrots climbed by the aid of the beak 

To the tops of the trees— 'twas a singular freak, 

And Morea birds with their coating of blue 

Were lovely, indeed, in this delicate hue; 

The throat and the tail were so changed in the light, 

To a brown or gold that was charming and bright; 

They chase the prince- orioles, whose fairy -like track 

Was known by the hue of orange and black. 

The impeyan gheasant with its raiment of green, 
The tints alternating its metallical sheen, 
With bronze-steel-blue and the violet, told 
Its right appellation is " bird of gold. " 

The humming-bird, flying with its light and flame— 

** Kissing Flower,' ' indeed, is a suitable name — 

Always enjoys that which is sweet, 

Sips all the flowers he chances to meet. 

The humming-bee buzzing from place to place 

Is pursued by this bird and is fond of this race. 

The raven was there with his dismal croak; 
The red-wing, arrayed in its beautiful cloak 
Flew to a branch of the highest tree, 



22 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN, 

Poured forth sweet songs of melody. 
The dove by the side of the paradise bird — 
Its cooing to his harsh notes is ever preferred; 
But his plumage with magnificence fraught, 
As a bird of beauty he's very much sought; 
The emerald, ruby and the sapphire doth vie 
With topaz to see which is the prettiest dye. 

The "Man of War* * sails into ocean of space, 

Writes his name on the clouds in beauty and grace. 

He meets the proud eagle in all kinds of weather, 

Soaring so grandly in the star-spangled ether. 

In the beak of the eagle is liberty's scroll; 

Eventually "'twill wave from pole unto pole." 

The flamingo has considerable renown, 

With the gayest of pinions to the clouds he hath flown; 

He advances with his forces in line; 

This wedge-shaped squadron is, indeed, very fine 

As they march through the heavens with the back-ground 

of blue, 
Presenting a contrast so brilliant to view; 
With their rosy-red plumage, these streaks of the morn 
Are the banners unfurled in defiance of scorn. 
Demoiselle lent his graces and charms 
Though some of his tribes are a terror to farms. 

The condor is a bird, we will call him the king, 
By way of the height that he flies on the wing. 
He can give the slightest kind of a snort, 
While the ostrich roars like a lion at sport. 

The delegates from all tribes and of broods 
Came by chance to this part of the woods; 
When the great orb of day began to decline, 
The birds sought their homes in an orderly line. 

The owls in the forest began their " too- woo"; 

A bird sang a sweet vesper " cuckoo"; 

11 My song is the loudest" said the quaint whip-poor-will: 

A parrot more drowsy, bade him " keep still." 



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The fire-flies came forth ready for dancing — 

By their mode of retreat and advancing. 

A light could be seen through the darkening glade; 

Brighter it grew, as the distance it made 

Toward the group, who were viewing this move 

In the light of the "Signal of Love." 

The " Lantern Fly" has a glorious creed, 

Carries its light through forest and mead 

To scatter the darkness of sin and wrong, 

Says, " Life is sweet as a merry song." 

Nature sank to a blissful repose; 

Her volume was clasped at the close 

Of this day, for now it was still, 

Save the occasional song of the whip-poor-will. 



CHAPTER X. 

The Dream Concluded. 

The goddess of morn, arose from ' midst the Sea, 
With her "golden chariot" in all her majesty; 
Her dewy fingers sparkled brightly in the sun; 
Light is divine, for in its rays is Beauty won. 

The triad now came forth to view Eden's glory, 
Of the rising Sun; to hear Eve's dreamland story. 
Said Eve: " I beheld a monarch with a haughty mien; 
He was sitting by his wife, her title was a queen. 
Isis and Osiris, together with their son, 
Formed a " holy trinity,' ' making three in one ! 

Vishnu was classed with this godly race; 

Symbols of his power — sword, lotus and the mace; 

The consort of this god, this great and mighty king 

Was Lakshmi, empress of whatever wealth can bring. 

A lady, I admired, was goddess of the moon. 

And all I wished to know, they said, they'd tell me soon; 

So, while I was gazing, with wonder and with pride, 



24 THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 

At this royal empress, who seemed a regal bride — 

'Twas great Diana in which so many towns 

Would worship at her shrine in sacrificial gowns; 

The crescent of the moon adorned her lovely head, 

Flowing robes extended to the ground she tread; 

A temple at Ephesus, one of the seven wonders of the 

world, 
Was like a magic picture, when they this scroll unfurled. 
The girls and women were objects of her care, 
The wounded and the sick in their sorrows had a share. 

Thousands were before Minerva invoking mental gold — 
Scholars, poets, men of fame, all these of royal mold ; 
Her power will be auspicious in the fullness of her reign, 
Her devotees exalted to a higher, nobler plane. 
" The better the Deity in wisdom and in love, 
The nobler the laity, " said one whose name is Jove. 
" I saw," said Eve, " those that worship at her shrine, 
Arise to be a beacon light, in after ages shine ; 
This illumination will ne'er expire; 
' Twill burn forever, like a torch of living fire. 
The coming ages will rekindle this flame 
At the altar of this goddess, in the Parthenon of Fame. 
Greece, in future ages, of well-earned fame, be proud. 
Just then a god's acclaim rang out long and loud : 
'Twas Jupiter, that gave this token of respect 
To this royal lady, in godly dialect. 
' Tis the brightest standard upon our princely walls, 
For ' twill be transcendent wherever duty calls. 
Said he, " Time will fade and rust, 
The escutcheons of the gods will crumble into dust, 
Save this, which will be to all mankind 
The Central Sun of all the earth — the Sun-god of the 
mind." 

The songsters of the wood sang a sweet accord ; 
As Eve related all she saw, they warbled at each word 
That was spoken, by those reverential lips ; 
Eagerly they listened, as the bee his flower sips ; 



THE NEW GARDEN CF EDEN. 25 

Nature fluttered in the wildness of her dreams, 
Secretly rejoiced at some hidden, unknown schemes. 

God said: c< My children, I must leave 

You, and soon you will receive 

Your guest ; must go to my far-off home ; 

Occasionally from its precincts will to Eden roam. 

So, good-bye ; may the light of future days 

Rest upon your heads with my eternal praise I" 



CHAPTER XI. 

Bird in the Cage. 

Eve, while engaged in deepest reflection, 

Gave the " Garden of Eden " the closest inspection. 

The Edenly birds were all one could wish — 

Often declared, " How delicious the fish ! " 

The flowers, oft-times, had given her pleasure; 

The perfume to her senses a treasure. 

The birds knew their mistress at will; 

When she was seen their pleasure would trill 

In the most happy and sweetest of songs, 

That echoed all o'er as a rebuke to all wrongs; 

But the enclosure was a fixed, narrow creed; 

She saw its expanse was a limit indeed. 

Her thoughts would arise in bitter disdain, 

Then in a sweet voice sang a plaintive refrain: 

"The beautiful flowers — their scent on the air 

So humid and stifling ! "■ she cried in despair. 

"This Garden is fine and lovely, I know ; 

Why this enclosure to limit us so ? 

Outside of this pen is the magnificent world." 

Indignation was seen on her lip as it curled. 

So she concluded on that very day 

She would be resigned and thought she would pray: 

u My dear Father, please give me some light, 

That I may walk in the path of the right ; 




26 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Please, give me knowledge, that I may be wise ; 

I wish to ne'er more my being despise ! " 

She was more calm on freeing her mind; 

Her best impulses told her, a spirit refined 

Was with her, like a beautiful mist — 

A holy baptism, which she did not resist. 

The scene all around changed to a haze ; 

Streaks appeared with a bright, rosy blaze. 

'Twas mysterious, how these luminous shades 

Formed into stars of various grades. 

" Klysian," was her frank, merry thought, 

As, on Nature's canvas, these visions were wrought. 

Again as she looked on this painting of air, 

Saw a tent and two boys with faces most fair. 

" How evanescent ! but I would like to know 

Who makes these pictures, and whither they go." 



CHAPTER XII. 

Nature Rejoices. 

The next morning there appeared a change of affairs: 

Aurora gleamed forth from her ethereal stairs 

A crown of splendor o'er the Atlas of earth 

A glorious nimbus in excess of the dearth 

That's under the dark segment near the north pole 

Glowed in radiance o'er the rest of the scroll 

Of the heavens. It was a storm of fine things; 

Came like a shower electricity brings. 

Could its meaning be Dame Nature's throes, 

A mighty endeavor to expel all the woes 

That hung o'er the earth, like a funeral pall, 

In darkness of mind, might submerge one and all? 

The terrified twain were filled with much wonder ; 

Various sounds, of electrical thunder, 

Occurred in the skies of the heavenly dome 

Near where their dear Father had built his new home! 



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They were astonished as all Nature attired 

In robes of beauty, which they greatly admired ; 

Electrical sparks were glinting and gleaming 

In profusion, in great splendor were teeming; 

Sparks united by some hidden attraction, 

Then dispersing by a law of detraction. 

Sometimes they would cluster like radiant balls 

Which hung from points as pendants in halls ; 

Again, by the law of attraction, allure; 

Electrical columns unite to procure 

A temple of light, which Dame Nature commands 

Each one to observe that her lily-white hands 

Ne'er bid us go onward with false, hollow creeds, 

But, e'er keep to her charm — the incense of deeds. 

Also, these columns, or fiery whirlpools, 

Gleam over the land like the light from our schools. 

Their attention was drawn down to the river; 

The waters were seen to be in a quiver ; 

Its surface, indeed, by a strange law was stirred 

By some great emotion, they really inferred. 

Gymnotus, torpedo lent their assistance ; 

They were inclined to use no resistance. 

Eve then glances in a certain direction, 
Exclaims in tone of the rising inflection: 
" Surely, something is coming. Look, in the East I 
Cannot you tell me whether 'tis angel or beast ? " 



CHAPTER XIIL 
A Stranger. 

The Devil had traveled for many a day — 

Came fast as he could; " for there's something to pay," 

He said to himself, as he journeyed along 

The route to Eden, for he did not prolong 

His stay by the wayside, and often times said, 



28 THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 

" ' Do good' is my motto, for evil I dread l" 

Way off in another part of the wood 

A lyre-bird exclaims in sweet accents, " Do good.' 1 

" Do good, ,, said a voice his far-away mate ; 

" Do good," chirps the mocking-bird as though he were 

Fate. 
" This journey I'll take, for I see through a glass 
Not darkly, but well, the hidden morass, 
Or miasm, that would breed in that spot 
That God has given as Adam's small lot. 
Just think ! In a few generations 
Would that Garden supply all their rations ? 
Am so afraid they will eat of the fruit 
Of the " Tree of Life," for it never would suit 
The people enclosed in that narrow pen. 
No w T onder I've come on this trip, through the glen, 
O'er the hill-top, mountain, desert and plain ; 
'Tis my mission to save all this pain. 
Think of the mind to remain a mere blank ! 
I know there will be foes that never will thank 
Me for breaking these numberless chains ; * 

Helots or slaves they'd prefer to these gains. 
Is it a curse to dig in the soil 
When in the Garden ? a disgrace there to toil ? 
Surely, Adam works by the sweat of his brow ; 
'Tis an honor, indeed, to follow the plow ; 
To delve in the earth are the sources of wealth ; 
Ah ! Hygeia is there, the goddess of health. 
I know I'll be trampled in dust ; 
Priests look upon me with shame and distrust. 
For thousands of years they will ever regard 
Me with displeasure — this, my reward ! 
If I'm covered with false accusations, 
'Twill certainly be from wrong calculations. 
I'll be rewarded, though late in the day; 
Chains I ne'er forged for mental decay. 
The wealth of the body and the wealth of the mind 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 29 

Is the deed I leave to all mankind. 
But this scheme I must circumvent, 
For this I came ; this my intent — 
Am doomed for ages to crawl ; 
For the sake of mankind, I bide by my fall. 
" Fall! " he exclaimed, with a thought of disdain : 
" Is it to fall to alleviate pain ? 
I've a mortgage on this Garden, or farm, 
^ Which I foreclose without bringing them harm. 
Death ! What is it ? Should mortals recoil 
To be set free from earthly turmoil ? 
Cut the chains, let the captive be free, 
Unloose the fetters, let the prisoner flee 
To planes of wisdom o'er Parnassus' height, 
Onward and upward in the beautiful light 
Of progress and power in the realm of worth, 
Where duties claim mortals which call them forth 
To do — to act as beings should 
In promoting affairs of brotherhood." 

Just then he came to a " show of a fence" ; 
Surely, God had put no extra expense 
Upon its construction, for the brushes and logs 
Were crude, but they kept out the hogs 
And cattle ; but the Devil now saw 
Two forms receding as money at law I 



CHAPTER XIV. 

Tlie Logician. 

Adam and Eve would naturally flee 

Under the shade of the largest tree, 

When they were nonplussed with this surprise, 

Though pursued by Good in ugly disguise. 

Whatever it was, gave a dextrous bound; 

Jumped o'er the fence on Edenly ground. 



30 THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 

- His manner of walking, indeed — it was odd; 
Perhaps he was sent an angel from God ! 
Soon he arrived at the very spot 
Where God told Adam not 
To partake of the apples, or he'd die; 
This, the warning he gave should he seek to defy 
His commands, and he told him that day 
If he ate of the fruit he'd return to the clay, 
Or the earth, in which was his source; 
This was his law; must 'bide by this course! 
The serpent or Devil looked at fair Eve; 
Thought, "How much I would grieve 
If she and Adam had ever partaken 
Of the fruit of Life; should have been quite forsaken ! M 
As he gazed, with much pride, on this beautiful twain, 
The light from his eyes gleamed a fierceness again; 
Whenever he thought of the schemes near at hand, 
To keep them apart from life's silver wand 
Which would give wisdom, love, and truth, 
And, a knowledge of science ; this, forsooth, 
Will stop the scheme in its infancy — right here in the bud; 
So, a little impetulant, came down with a thud. 

Said he to fair Eve: "If you will only partake 

Of the fine golden apples, please, do for your sake. 

To be wise as the gods would be of great use 

To all earth's children; then dare to refuse 

An order to e'er keep you a slave — 

Your mind dark as midnight pent in a cave. 

Better let light, with its bright, glowing rays, 

Come to thy soul, the rest of thy days. 

Than to live as you have with no hope to arise 

Above the dear pets }^ou know how to prize. 

You know not how slender is the fine, silken thread 

Hangs on this event, o'er thy beautiful head. 

Accept, and a glory awaits you all o'er 

The range of eternity, indeed, ever more 



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Your soul in its fullness outlive 

All curses, that God, in his wrath, ever give I 

Now, I'll tell you, he said Adam would die 

That day he should eat of this fruit. I deny 

This statement, though, you may judge, 

I'm holding for him, a singular grudge. 

Not so in the least. I'll tell you the truth: 

You'll live far beyond this day of your youth. 

You will see many important events 

Take place in a land outside of this fence. 

Your name traduced as the author of sin, 

You'll be maligned, as really kin 

To the Devil, or serpent, in all that is bad 

In mischief and evil — please be not sad, 

If I give both sides of this wonderful case. 

This you should know ere you rise from disgrace ! 

Thousands of years will certainly roll 

On the wheel of Time ere this stain on your soul 

Will be erased by Reason's keen lens, 

Which is your Saviour from Ignorance' pens. 

'Tis as I tell you — your glorious name, 

Together with others, will be covered with shame* 

Priests will look e'er askance — 

Hardly will deign on woman a glance ! 

They'll teach all the men to shamelessly rule 

Women, as though they were babes in a school! 

This taint will clog the wheels of Time, 

And the far-distant ages will lift this great crime, 

As a cloud is rifted by the light of the sun; 

Then its waves of delight will flow o'er each one. 

When that time comes, women shall be 

In their only true sphere of equality. 

Man, by force of his manual strength, 

Usurps her rights, but her powers at length 

Shall win, when the tension is strained, 

Too far, for the thread to e'er be regained. 

No man is blamed, for Custom is king; 



32 THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 

No man is accused of fashioning 
The design of life, save priestly rule, 
That teaches men in its bigoted school 
Their views of life, and the lesson they'll learn 
Shall think it right; in time, they will spurn 
These precepts they thought were right; 
Will give up the shadow for beautiful light. 
This is as true as true can be, 
, That man cannot rise in eternity \ 
Till he by kindness deigns to redress 
The wrong he has done by his selfishness. 
When a selfish love, combined with pride 
Stands at the altar, by the loving bride, 
The bridal veil, of this helpless one, 
Turns as black as the cloistered nun, 
When he stoops as low as a cruel knave, 
Or master, whipping a loyal slave. 
I see in the ages that have come and gone, 
Man giving woman her right to the throne. 
Then he'll sit by the side of his queen, 
With no injustice to intervene — 
Man and woman side by side, 
Onward forever o'er the ocean's tide 
Of success, in the kingdom of science, 
Where no more rule, or priestly defiance 
Will block the route of the lovely pair, 
For the golden steps are everywhere." 



CHAPTER XV. 
Tlie Key. 

The largest tree under which they stood, 

Was the identical tree that was reckoned good. 

The apples were ruddy, large and sweet, 

Really adapted for them to eat. 

This magnificent tree Eve did admire, 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 33 

For, to be wise was her greatest desire. 
With reverence, she tasted the apple so red, 
And gave one to Adam, but he ate it with dread. 
Nevertheless, they ate and relished the food, 
Readily affirmed the fruit was good. 

Suddenly, schools were seen, from the palace down 

To the hut, thought Kve; 'tis a sacred town. 

Public schools are the solid foundations, 

The massive bulwark of all of the nations ; 

They are firmly built on a rock, 

Securely braced 'gainst priestly shock; 

The foundations were precious stones, 

Kach layer ablaze, or different zones 

With glittering, radiant gems 

Fitted to adorn youth's diadems. 

The costly gems so rich and rare 

She saw in this city everywhere; 

The walls composed of beautiful pearl, 

Sardonyx, emerald and lovely beryl, 

Topaz, amethyst and the sapphire 

Blending with hues of the striped jasper. 

All were luminous in this City of Gold; 

These were the schools of the gods she was told— 

Gods of Light, Wisdom and Truth — 

True guides for the mind of the youth. 

The beauteous forms of splendor and grace 

Left its impress on her intelligent face. 

The Devil watched the process of Good, 

Its power so great o'er womanhood: 

Said he, " 'Twould, indeed, be a curse 

On God, angel or man to make woman worse 

By his machinations in any one form 

That would blast her prospects in life's bitter storm." 

While the Devil was deep in grave cogitations 
About evil and good in the Congress of Nations, 
Adam and Eve went a little apart; 



34 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Something in their minds, like a conscience, would smart. 

They talked secretly o'er the events of the day; 

Were very uneasy, hardly knew what to say; 

Like culprits, a law had transgressed; 

To hide was their impulse, and wished they were dressed. 

What would God say if he should know 

About eating apples ! where could they go 

To escape from his anger ? Said Kve, "We will make 

Us some clothes; perhaps it will break 

The force of the fall, of his bitterest scorn, 

For, in my heart, is lurking a thorn !" 

They, in appearance, were quiet and grim; 

Adam secured leaves from the limb 

Of a tree called the rig, for both — 

Their first experience in the matter of cloth. 

They managed well as they possibly could, 

In sewing their garments, with pieces of wood; 

All was ready, their toilet complete; 

For soon they'd have their Father to meet. 



CHAPTER XVI. 

God's Sermon in Eden. 

" 'Tis fine, this grove of sycamore trees; 

How bracing this westerly breeze !" 

Said God, as in the " cool of the day" 

He'd arrived in Eden, having much to say 

To his children: " They've obeyed every law— 

My commandments perfect, without any flaw I 

The true way is to tighten the chains; 

Never give them, freely, the reins; 

So they remain in their bamboo cage. 

What if they do fret and fume in a rage; 

Quench all the light in Wisdom's lamp ! 

My sermon, to-day, is always to cramp 

The mind. Let the bells gaily toll 






THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 3S 

The requiem o'er the death of the soul ! 

Credulity should be encouraged in man; 

This great trait should lead in the van, 

So mankind can be led by a string — 

Not much work for the priestly king ! 

Eve talks strangely. I cannot see why 

She wishes to travel, and sometime to die ! 

My fears are she will certainly eat 

Those apples; and my scheme will defeat. 

She'd like to know as much as the gods. 

My advice is, be content, where she trods 

On Eden's fair soil where my children will be 

Happy as birds, through eternity ! 

I'll tell her to be ever content 

With this Garden of Eden, in any event !" 

Rousing himself from his deep meditations, 

What an example he'd be to the coming nations ! 

Bethought where Adam and Eve could be 

And anxiously walked from tree to tree; 

Passed by the poplar with leaves of unrest; 

Broke from the almond a blooming crest; 

Thought, " This symbol will ever be 

My delicate wand of authority." 

Then, somewhat anxious, began to halloo: 

" Adam and Eve, where are you ? 

Tell me, Adam, where art thou, 

That you should hide from my presence now ?" 

Adam replied: "Here am I !" 

But trembled in fear of his majesty. 

He stammeringly said: " I was afraid of you," 

Forgetting his dress, " and am naked, too !" 

"Who told thee thou wast undressed ? 

Who said this to give you unrest ?" 

Adam's most plaintive and humble reply, 

"The woman thou gavest me," he said, with a sigh, 

" Gave me the apples and I, really, did ea t , 



36 THE NEW GAKDKN OP EDEN. 

Gravely thought they were delicious and sweet." 

God said to Kve, in an angry tone, 

" Why did you not leave those apples alone ?" 

The woman's reply was given in haste, 

"The Devil beguiled me, and his logic embraced, 

I ate the apples, for my bright, gilded cage 

Held a bird of unrest that would often engage 

In songs full of sorrow; to be happy and free, 

Could only be gained by liberty I" 

Just then, the Devil came to view how they stood 

In this high melodrama, in this part of the wood. 

God saw him, and how he did curse ! 

Said he: " I am really averse 

To all your intentions to baffle my schemes. 

I curse you above the cattle that teems 

O'er the earthland where they have their abode." 

Such was his language, while stamping the road 

With his foot, showing the fashion 

Of gods when in a terrible passion. 

"I curse thee I" said God, while grinding his teeth; 

"Thou shalt crawl as the worm on the ground underneath 

The feet of man, the dust for thy food; 

Thy dowry, henceforth, for the knowledge of good 

And evil thou gavest to Adam and Bve, 

You'll be divided by enmity, and I bid you leave 

This Garden of Kden, soon as you can, 

For opposing my wonderful plan !" 

"This will not be the last instance curses be given 

As mandates from God from the Vatican heaven," 

Thought the Devil, or serpent, just then, 

As onward he crawled through woodland and glen, 

" Enmity — that exactly expresses 

The love that mankind possesses 

When their pattern is \ war to the knife, ' 

Filling the world with sorrow and strife; 

Curses » maledictions, 'tis radical hate 






THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 



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That will follow mankind in priestly estate. 

Curses I see all along in the years, 

Covering the earth with a shadow of fears. 

Man armed, cap-a-pie, with this watchword and cry, 

* Believe as I do, or you'll be cursed when you die; 

Believe as I do, or this bright, burnished steel, 

In the name of the I^ord, its sharpness shall feel; 

Believe as I do, or you'll be burned at the stake, 

For not comprehending the presage I make.' 

I see millions of people in the name of the I^ord 

Immolated by the gleam of the sword; 

I see battles, carnage and plunder, 

As though Thor, the god of thunder, 

Had full sway by this terrible crash ; 

'Tis horror to hear the strokes of the lash. 

As I view this dark scene my heart sorely grieves 

For humanity, but my conscience leaves 

Me blameless. I know I did well 

To open the gate of this theological hell, 

And let them out to roam as they will 

O'er the plains of the earth, o'er mountain and rill, 

To do as they please, in the highway of Mind, 

Where treasures immortal they ever will find. 

Sometime, I'll have a glorious shrine — 

No shadow of curses in this temple divine. 

Devil, serpent, whatever it is, 

I bide by the name, would not give it for his ! 

Shall take with me the dearest farewell 

Of the scenes around, for that image will dwell 

(That beautiful face, so glowing and wise) 

In my heart for aye. This, my prize. 

So, Garden of Eden, and Adam, good bye; 

I bless you, fair Bve, till the day you shall die; 

To God, I would say, no falsehood will claim 

Co-partners with the Devil's to blacken your name ! 

Still, I would say 'good bye' to you, too — 

It can't be you know the mischief you do ! 



38 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Perhaps you are young, and in future kn ow better 
Not to forge any chain, handcuff or fetter. 
Perhaps you had better be wise, 
Something may come to open your eyes !" 

While God was so angry — tore each pretty bloom 

Of the almond to pieces, while pronouncing the doom 

Of the Devil. Bve must expect sorrow the rest of her days. 

"Now ceases forever my Fatherly praise; 

Your husband will evermore rule 

O'er you, and you will be regarded a tool 

In his hands; brute force his sway. 

As well as the mental, all orders obey ! 

11 Adam," said he, (with eyes flashing fire, 

To think all needed the force of his ire), 

" Sir, for the reason you were deluded to-day 

By Bve, I'll denounce you alway. 

Accursed be the ground; this soil I now hate; 

'Tis your diet hereafter in the world's broad estate. 

Thistles and thorns, 'twill a crop for you yield, 

And the herb thou shalt eat that grows in the field.' * 

Adam and Kve were like two stricken deer 
Near their hunter, who had been severe 
In running them down and brought them at bay, 
Their flesh torn to pieces by the blood-hounds of prey. 
God left them, so they relaxed for awhile 
Their statuesque manner, and in hillocks to pile 
The leaves, he had strewn on the ground — 
Did this for pastime, for in nothing they found 
Interest, in Eden, after the curses. 
How many tyrants this scene rehearses ! 
"No matter," said Bve, "harsh words from a Father 
Are black as midnight, and, I'd much rather 
Be free to roam than be around here; 
No, I can't endure this shedding a tear 
O'er the past and the present." Surely, her Father she 
dreaded, 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

So off in labyrinthian mazes she threaded 

Her way, in a far-distant nook, 

Where she and Adam would never more look 

On his visage — God ought to know 

That curses were quite mal-apropos — 

Thought she, " 'Tis, indeed, no disgrace 

To give this key to the whole human race. 



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CHAPTER XVII. 

Fur Suits. 

Said Kve unto Adam, " Please, will you tell 

Why the beasts in the forest and dell 

Are running o'er mountain and brook? 

'Tis a wonderful race; now as I look, 

I know the cause of this stir: 

They're being caught, perhaps, for their fur. 

*Tis God, running so fast; 

With his lasso has caught some at last ! 

He kills them by wringing their necks. 

A Hercules viewing the wonderful wrecks 

Would have thought them simply immense; 

God would have killed them at any expense, 

For he quickly knew how to tan 

Tne hides of these beasts for his woman and man — 

From this material, cut each a suit — 

A dress, coat and pants, even a boot, 

Or, sandal; 'twas done very soon — 

Kre the dial traced the sun-mark of noon ! 

They were quite anxious to please 

Their Father, to wear clothing like these, 

Said Kve, " For the bright, golden sheaves 

Showed fall near at hand, and the gay, crimson leave9 

Were flying at will; some transformed into gold 

Were signs that soon 'twould be stormy and cold." 

No wonder they both were elated, 



40 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN, 

Thinking to be reinstated 

In his esteem; still watching his face, 

Saw by its shadow, the 'd " fallen from grace," 

For, o'er his brow, did the cloud darkly lower. 

" Now, is the time to exhibit my power,' ' 

God exclaimed, "he has become one of us;" 

The birds began singing, " Please hear his mandamus:" 

" One of us," they repeated and a laughing ha, ha ! 

Said the birds Adam named the macaw; 

'* One of us" yells the pretty blue jay, 

" 'Tis a laughable thing, I really must say." 

" Many gods for one throne;" said the cruel jackdaw, 

" That are equal with him in matters of law !" 

God was chagrined at these demonstrations 

Of Nature's tumultuous and harsh exclamations. 

He finally said as his august word, 

That Cherubims stand with the swift, flying sword 

And guard for aye the sacred Iyife-Tree — 

What a fine vocation for angels 'twould be ! 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

Excommunication. 

Kve heard a rustle among the dry leaves, 

A premonition of something that grieves 

The spirit; God is coming with a strange, haughty mien; 

He is angry, his eyes flashing keen 

On Adam and Eve. They wished much to know — 

How long he would be their bitterest foe. 

He ordered them to " pass out the gate, 

Not by the wayside to reluctantly wait." 

The shock was so sudden they stood quite aghast. 

Again, the command " to go quickly" was passed. 

"Go where?" said Adam, feeling afraid. 

*■* Where?" God exclaimed, "To till the soil I have made; 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. it 

I have a most lofty disdain, 

For both of my children, so, I'll tell you again, 

Begone from this Eden where once it was peace; 

May curses go with you, and find your release 

From all that in life would give you much joy; 

Hate the ingredients, this be your alloy !" 

They understood him to the fullest extent; 

The gate being open, out they both went 

In sadness slowly, this beautiful pair. 

Where to go, they knew not, but must travel, somewhere. 

There arose from the ground an electrical blue, 

Fountains of light erubescent in hue, 

So imposingly grand, this couple stood still 

To view operations of this sign of good- will . 

They looked on the mountains that surrounded the dale; 

They found kind Nature was rending the veil 

That encircled the earth — 

For illumination was sending its girth 

'Round the globe in one luminous chain 

With a glory quite new, to ocean and plain. 

A mountain near by was, really, on fire — 

Its volume of splendor seemed never to tire. 

Others, with their radiant gleam 

From their craters, gleefully teem 

Their joy; now Homer could rise 

With his warriors proud to the very skies. 

Vesuvius renewed his wealth of delight, 

Erebus spread glory o'er his long wintry night 

How grand was the light of the fiery Tolima ! 

Sicily inspired by the glorious Etna, 

Cotopaxi leaped from his house Ecquador, 

A light that shone brightly by his own metaphor; 

St. Helens glanced forth in a magnificent flame 

That gave to the M States" its quota of Fame — 

A tribute like this from the sublime Gualatieri, 

" 'Tis the gate ajar for the intellectual era." 



42 THE NEAV GARDEN OF EDEN. 

CHAPTER XIX. 

I Original Sin. 

I The Devil arrived at an " exceeding high mountain," 
Drank water from a pure, crystal fountain, 
Thought " total depravity" was a beautiful twin 
To go with its brother " Original Sin." 
Total — those dear ones depraved 
Whom I assisted, and finally saved 

From perdition ! Whose's to blame; this innocent pair ? 
Or the one that should give them his Fatherly care ? 
'Tis not wrong to disobey a command 
When 'tis known that a hideous brand 
Is to be worn to your dishonor and shame 
And blacken, forever, an untarnished name. 
If woman is willing to remain in a cave, 
She never knows fully how much she's a slave. 
Let her come out with the loftiest intentions 
As a delegate to priestly conventions. 
Priests point with disdain at " Original Sin," 
And, tell her c< Paul bade her not to come in !" 
Priests must say something that they may live at their 

ease 
And will not care such a monster to please 
As woman; only hide the dark curse 
When Benevolence gives them a long golden purse ! 
These beastly twins with their terrible jaws 
Will strip from each Capitol all reasonable laws 
And favor dear man because he's so weak. 
Will need protection or taiff on cheek ! 
Her birthright — Equality — man will spurn; 
Home, a bastile, where a coward will learn 
Not to show his eye-teeth or give a fierce growl 
And conceal his grim features with a hood or a corol 
Of deceit; an underground railroad-divorce 
Will vanish as mist when he changes his course. 
L,et not the once happy wife 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 

Think for a moment of taking her life, 

Or glad to advance through Death's golden gate, 

For cruel refinement is as cruel as hate. 



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CHAPTER XX. 

Great Rejoicing. 

Attracted by a mysterious sound, 
Adam and Kve walked slowly around 
Toward the Eastern part of the fence, 
Curiosity being so very intense. 
Soon they saw the Cherubims; 
Thought God's plans were the queerest whims. 
"Why not curse it, as Christ will the fig tree ?" 
A fairy exclaimed, in the greatest jubilee. 

Onward they walked under the shadow of trees, 

Their brows being kissed by Liberty's breeze; 

The sunlight danced through the branches in glee, 

And told by its gleam they were happy and free. 

They beheld the beasts roaming over the hills, 

And while drinking from the clear, sparkling rills, 

Happy were they, for the white polar bear 

Could travel northward to his ice-covered lair. 

The elephants started in the wildest confusion, 

For they came to the sagest conclusion 

Their home was in a far away clime; 

With speed did they travel to get home in time 

Ere the weather become unpropitious; 

Thought they, " How delicious 

This journey;" looked very sagacious; 

"This object was surely tenacious." 

The tiger leaped toward his home in the jungles 

To a land far away from Kdenly jumbles, 

To his home that is called Hindoostan, 

Where in time, he'll be hunted by his cousin, the man ! 



44 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

The giraffe had a long distance to grope 

His way to the Cape of Good Hope. 

The sloths walked slowly with their low, plaintive cry: 

* c Shall go home if we die 

On the way; in the tropics 'tis warm; 

We shall be free from the cold, chilly storm. 

To South America, our journey on trees 

Will be peculiar; do not walk on our knees, 

But cling to the branches, with the head downward. 

It is not our nature to move quickly onward. 

When the forest is exceedingly dense, 

We go from one tree to another and make no pretense 

Of descent to the ground, for each generation 

Knows what is best for sloth ambulation. 

How it will be, I cannot conjecture. 

We can travel so far, is the theme of our lecture, 

At this important and eminent crisis 

In our lives — the foot-ball of devices, 

Such as has been in this place 

Where exists the beginning of all the sloth race!" 

The dingle enroute for his home in Australia, 
Hippopotami bound for some estuary 
In Africa— they bade Kden farewell, 
Wishing a bath in the water a spell ! 

Springbok, antelope and bounding gazelle, 

Rapid their progress o'er mountain and dell; 

Thousands of animals diverging each way. 

The howling and barking and the deafening bray 

Was a chorus with a weird kind of charm; 

AU were rejoicing, and, no one would harm. 

The various reptiles were in this parade, 

For, God, in his mercy, had created this grade 

Of animals. The birds grandly soar; 

Their fluttering wings in their vulcan-like roar 

Told how gladly to bid fair Eden "good night," 

As onward they flew and faded from sight 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN, 45 

In the distance. The sound died away, 
Silence reigned, save the monkeys at play. 
And the doves with joy were elate 
To be with fair Eve outside of the gate. 



OHAPTFR XXL 

Sea of Splendor. 

Eos rising from the Sea, the goddess of the Dawn, 

By her steeds divine, her chariot was drawn 

From her glittering bed, up from the shades of night, 

Drawing aside the curtain, casting roseate floods of light 

O'er all the pearly dewdrops that reflected her bright 

beams 
In countless glories, that her beauty teems 
In majesty; " for every tremulous atom 
Speaketh Nature's power that 'tis glorious to fathom 
The mysteries of life" said the devil; and he thought 
How her mantle by the hand of Nature wrought — 
How resplendent when hung on memory's walls 
Where we can view this picture on which a lustre falls, 
To be studied by the artist, and the philosopher to glean 
All the products of her wisdom, by this lamp is glory seen. 
There is much to think about in this world of ours — 
Speaketh of divinity in the strongest mental powers. 
How loud the atoms' voice when heard in thunder tone, 
When in proportion to the other forces grown. 
'Tis wholly in atoms that are concrete in power — 
To work out the mandates force e'er keeps in dower. 
No matter, their intonations have one harmonious voice; 
When properly understood, maketh every one rejoice. 
Her mysteries resplendent, her lamps are neat and trim; 
Bursting forth with grandeur is the unfolding of her hymn; 
Her symphonies melodious in the extreme, 
Harmony is her major key in future to redeem 
Mankind from the shady planes of woe, 



46 THE N^W GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Up to the mountain-tops of Science' lucid glow. 

That, in contrast to a hell of endless fire, 

'Tis no pleasant route to heaven, upon his Lordship's ire. 

Atacama is this faith — a waste — a mental dearth; 

Reason, with its lightning gleam will sweep it from the 

earth. 
Then, humanity from priestly craft unchained — 
True " Elevation of the Host," when this emancipation's 

gained. 
To tie themselves to any post, or circumscribe the creed, 
Will securely hold them — will check their onward speed; 
This would warp the noblest and purest aspirations — 
Keep them in the dust for want of perorations 
Of the firmament of the soul's expanse 
Where the eagle of the mind can soar with quickened 

glance. 
I've no fault to find with priests of godly lore, 
Who gladly lengthen chains, and ask in faith for more 
Light; who will grow each day and hour 
In Wisdom, though in sacerdotal power. 
They deserve great credit, for their inspirations tell 
On plastic minds of laity while in this purest spell. 
Unconsciously they widen the highway 'til it's broad, 
And leads by flowery Bdens to the pearly gates of God. 
'Tis the God of Nature that enrobes them highly now; 
Her highest attributes adorn the regal brow. 
Not toward them will my indignation rise; 
They are godly men that I never will despise; 
They are crowned with laurel leaves that burst the 

bands of all 
That limits progression in this holy, sacred, call. 
Kindness should be the reflection in the cloud, 
Of deeds of holy men, in which I might be proud. 
'Tis Ignorance, this tiger, that's always in the van 
Of the army of unkindness unto man. 
" The world is, indeed, my country; my religion is: Do 

good," 



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Says colossal Reason, in the name of Brotherhood. 
Life's a world of splendor, when each sect is kind, humane, 
Climbing ever onward to a higher, nobler plane. 



CHAPTER XXII. 

Behind the Scenes. 

Eve was playing with her pets, watching all their pranks; 
Every moment of her life was full of grateful thanks 
To one who had redeemed them from desert life; 
Alt was gratitude, with such emotions rife; 
Still, there was a shadow creeping through the door 
Of her mind's happiness — " events cast theirs before." 
She could not imagine why Adam was so queer: 
His face was cold at times, his glance was quite severe. 
Perhaps, he regretted leaving his home or lot; 
Was lost in sad reveries of that strange and godly plot. 
She could not understand the true, the vital cause, 
'Til Adam came before her; after a moment's pause, 
Said he to Bve, in tones quite harsh and gruff, 
" You've been playing with these pets long enough; 
You must sever all such ties — I'll have no nonsense here; 
You must 'bide by my command, or 'twill cost you very 
dear !" 

Eve astonished, stood like a statue still and cold, 

Her eyes transfixed with wonder, when his wish at last 

was told. 
"Can this be my Adam that I thought was good and 

great ? 
Am I mistaken — am I in my normal state ?" 
Soon she left him, to bear her grief alone, 
Where he could not hear the anguish of her moan. 
" Oh !" she exclaimed, " this is more than I can bear 1 
Wish i were in my grave, indeed, or anywhere 
Than here ! I thought his love divine — 
He was so kind to me. Why this sword of thine 



48 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

So unmerciful in its progress through the heart ? 

It stingeth like a poisoned arrow-dart." 

The scene around her in this sacred solitude 

Quickly rilled with fairies, in a tearful attitude, 

Bowed with sorrow, and 'kerchiefs to their eyes, 

Like parian marble statues, denoting Nature's sighs. 

On this occasion were dressed in silver gray, 

Trimmed with dewdrops tremulous with this spray — 

The lovely naiads, the fairies of the strand, 

The nymphs, resplendent, ruling forest land, 

Made a mournful scene, these fairies at this time, 

Giving sympathy in this mute but rythmic rhyme. 

11 If this is the way God wished man to rule, 

For the first time in life, have been a lordly fool ! 

Rule, I hate the word; indeed, I almost curse 

Myself. I dislike that word far worse — 

'Tis all that's low and mean. 

This, my vow: No more rule shall come between 

My Eve and me; it is daggers to my sight, 

Each one crimson with bloody drops of fright. 

Never shall I forget the frightened glance, 

When I flourished aloft the lurid, ugly lance. 

A man who talks to woman as he dare not talk to man, 

Is cowardly in motive and falls under the ban 

Of dishonor, from the realm of Justice' sway, 

And torture awaits him, by Conscience's lucid ray. 

Peace has fled; am worse than God 

When he displayed the blackened, menta 1 rod; 

Hardly know how to set — what course to pursue; 

Hardest work of my life, for I don't know what to do. 

She may not hear me, e'en should I explain; 

Misery, indeed, is this thorny path of pain. 

She may spurn me, as, indeed, I ought to be — 

Just reward for my inconstancy." 

A peri had been rapping so gently at the gate, 

Of his best impulses, eie it should be too late; 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 49 

She succeeded in calming the progress of the storm — 

Less terrific this cyclone o'er his form. 

A gentle zephyr singing a sweet and hallowed hymn 

O'er the spirit, mildly, in one grand requiem, 

Of "The Death of Anger"— he falters, starts— " Yes," 

said, "I'll go; 
No longer will I endure this deep, and bitter throe." 

Kve seemed floating o'er gloomy, stygian streams — - 

Was deep in the darkness of Plutonian dreams; 

She heard a voice, the accents strange to hear, 

Kxpectmg only tones, oh, so severe ! 

Can it be Adam ? saying gently, ' * Fair Kve, 

Please, dry your tears, never more to grieve; 

I wish to say that I did the meanest act one couldt 

To any mortal, worse than mortal ever should. 

Can you forgive me ? Please give an answering look* 

To tell me, I'm forgiven; never more I'll brook 

Such bitter words that are vultures in the heart, 

Tearing out the vitals. How I wish to part 

With such company ! Then do you, really, spurn 

The worm that crawls beneath your feet that he may 

learn 
His lesson in regret; in sorrow pass his years ? 
My dear Kve, I bless you through my tears." 
'Twas too much for Kve. She raised her lovely head; 
Her eyes spoke her forgiveness; his arms quickly sped 
Around his Kve; Love and Love entwined, 
On the altar of their noble hearts, were evermore en- 
shrined. 
Instantly appeared a million men, 
On mountain, in woodland, and glen, 
With bugles, clarion, and, flute; 
Trombone was there, also, the lute; 
Clarionet resounded, with tones of the drum- 
All were playing the anthem of Home. 
'Tis with harmony where peace can abide, 




50 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Where Love is welcome side by side 

With its mate — where no storm at this shrine 

Should darken the altar; then, love is divine, 

The music filled the earth in grandest intonations; 
The waves of sound sped around in sweetest incantations; 
The tones were full of melody, replete with joyful measure, 
That kindness should prevail as life's divinest pleasure. 

The' fairies, gaily dancing in another* kind of dress 
Of sparkling diamonds, denoting happiness. 
This fairy pirouette was, indeed, full of grace, 
And joy was reflected in each sweet and happy face. 



CHAPTER XXIIL 
God Writes a Book. 

A seraph flew to God's abode to tell him all the news 
About Eve and Adam. God thought, f ' I've no time to 

lose, 

For the opposing force is powerful to instill 
His belief upon their minds by his secret, subtle will. 
Can it be, with all this power, I have need of fear — 
That the Devil will be king of all I hold most dear? 
Will this godly throne become empty as the air, 
My rights usurped and me driven from my chair ? 
I've work to do — must keep vengeance for my word 
As coming from a mighty King, the Great I am, the I^ord ! 
I'll be the God of Battles all along the Jewish line; 
All over the Christian land shall gleam my sword divine; 
Shall have power to act; shall be in no disguise, 
For I am King of earth and Emperor of the skies. 
I must make a hell of fire to put my creatures in; 
Multitudes will be alive with mortal sin. 
I'm a jealous God — no Gods in heaven but me; 
No Jesus can thrive upon this godly tree !" 
His face was fierce with anger as the prospect viewed; 



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The glistening gems upon his brow were ready for this 

feud: 
14 When I see mortals, all o'er the Christian land, 
Killing each their brother with the lurid, fiery brand, 
Then 'twill be my pleasure to see this loving strife 
Taking what they cannot give occult, human life ! 
Priests will answer with favor in the nod, 
*Thou may'st kill/ as a commandment from then God ! 
*Tis to my glory to have worshipers at last." 
His eyes were full of tenderness, as o'er the benches cast 
A loving glance, that told how deep his hope 
To rule — this heavenly, Christian Pope. 
Being suddenly inspired, ordered ink, and pen 
And paper — wished to write a book for earthly men. 
'Twould be a frble, so pure for all to read, 
The greatest work in all the world — what every one will 

need. 
Schools will be builded to give children " moral tone," 
"Non-Sectarian," said he, with secret groan ! 
Happy were his thoughts, that pleased him very much; 
The letters sparkled as he wrought by his saintly, godly 

touch. 

The book was finished, and knew what prestige it would 

be, 
To make him Lord of all, through vast Eternity ! 
Laying pen aside, he calmly went to sleep; 
He needed rest, but in his visions deep, 
Thought of his great exhaustion, on Creation's morn; 
Rested many days, so he could be borne 
To earth, to visit Adam and his Eve — 
Reveled in the thought how he'd grant them no reprieve I 



CHAPTFR XXIY. 

The Devil in Spain. 

"Have traveled far to view the land of Spain: 
Her history is inscribed o'er all her fertile plain; 



52 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

The mountains, also the rivers and the dell, 

The strangest panorama the rocks and trees doth tell. 

I see galleons freighted with her gold, 

Wealth and splendor in hieroglyphics bold, 

Her vessels sailing o'er all the seas. 

As I view this grandeur my senses seem to freeze, 

For as I see a dragon traveling o'er her soil, 

Tramping with his iron heel, in horror I recoil. 

The men who have a conscience, and for this moral right 

Are branded as foul heretics, and fall by force of might. 

Torquemada, this pure and godly saint, 

Liked the Inquisition which would ever be a taint 

Upon his name. What was the Inquisition 

But a gladatorial arena of Christian superstition ? 

Her beasts fought Honestly at the rack, 

Chained Science that it leave no shining track ! 

Education and Refinement will yet wisely see 

The dragon has an ugly mien, to slay his royalty. 

This trail upon her ground has made her sadly poor, 

Begging for a crust, for she shuts the mental door. 

When'er the Church and States combined, 

The track of this grim monster will check the empire — 

Mind. 
This is not all I've seen with prophetic eye: 
In the Land of Freedom he is seeking to defy 
The public schools and the teachers brand with shame. 
'The immorality ■ they teach is a stigma on their name, 
He's wily and believes that any land 
Where Freedom reigns, a Republic cannot stand ! 
Here in this institution, in glorious Spain, 
That is built to torture, manhood will profane. 
I see the curses coming on the waves of Time, 
Crystallized in their house of brick and lime ! 
Who's to blame for cursing man or beast, 
When such object lessons come from God to priest? 
Hovering o'er America is another dragon's paw, 
Having selfish motives in the Courts of Law. 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 63 

These huge monsters, with jealous eyes, 
Think the United States a place to gain a prize ! 
Put God in the Constitution, and Jesus on the throne, 
A ruler of the Nation, and the Holy Ghost alone, 
Somewhere ! then they'll have ' peace;' 
In this Christian land will knowledge quickly cease; 
Vile heretics will give no more impetus to science — 
All they will need is, on God to have reliance. 
Give the dragons equality in the land, 
A battle would prevail in a conflict really grand ! 
If America will be brave — not be ruled by God or Ghost — 
She will conquer all such mcfisters that invade her lovely 
coast. 

Written on the churches, is this quaintest story — 
How Piety discovered the land of Purgatory. 
In fourteen hundred thirty, at the Council of Florence, 
'Twas first found, without the least abhorrence, 
By Pope and priests, who wished to be extremely good — 
Found eight little hells for their loving brotherhood ! 
Money ', from the living, would be the golden key 
To pass dear souls from keenest misery 
To Paradise. No wonder the hand of greed 
Writes, * the holy bible the laity must not read.' 
* SeU all thou hast, and give unto the poor/ 
Is not written upon any creedal door. 
This advice is no way to redeem 
Mankind, for 'tis an extreme 

Which has a priestly glow. Remember gold, as an ex- 
change, 

Gilds the landscape with a broader range 

Of vision; 'tis as the bee, sipping life's honey 

From the flowers of delight — is consecrated money. 

'Gold is the root of all evil,' says the giant Fraud, 

While demanding fees for the glory of its God ! 

Now, I behold a lovely queen, 

Isabella is her name, and this the scene: 



54 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

'Tis strange, but true, that men of bible lore, 

Ridiculed Columbus and drove him from their door 

For teaching this heresy — * that the earth is round; ' 

Incredulity is learnedly profound 

In wisdom; Ignorance scoffs, but the lady of this lanfl 

Gave her royal jewels that he might command 

Vessels to sail o'er seas, and found a country great and 

vast, 
Where Freedom plants her banner in solid rock at last. 
The influence of a woman, in this case, 
Did much for the disenthrallment of her race. 
Her jeweled key helped to break the crust 
Of Superstition; time will crumble it to dust; 
Science ever conquers in this field, 
For truth is found upon her shield. 
The earth is round, and the bible took a rest; 
Heresy arose a sphynx, with peculiar zest- 
Began anew to investigate 
The claims of the bible potentate ! 
Good bye, Spain ! I see better days for you; 
Your nobler instincts have beckoned to the Jew 
To come within your borders, and freely give their feet 
A refuge from some dragon who wants a money treat 
By persecution Many blessings for you, Spain; 
Splendor will again be yours, but on a higher plane." 



CHAPTER XXV. 

New House. 

• 

The Storm King warned Adam to invent, 

The best way he could, the crudest kind of tent. 

The style of architecture was cuniform, 

A sure retreat against an earthly storm. 

Said Eve, " I had another dream, I'd like to tell: 

Was in a land where fairies seemed to dwell; 

I saw Jesus who was so very grand; 



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55 



Could not suppress the wish, so, kissed his hand. 

Was told he had his faults— some mistakes were given 

In the records of his thoughts on heaven : 

The prediction of his appearing in the dome 

Of heaven; his pathway from his home 

To earth; be in a Sea of Glory ere they should die— 

His disciples — 'twould prove his divinity ! 

'Twas a failure; his disciples never saw this glory, 

So much like a priestly, legendary story. 

Another episode: how a certain law would trample, 

In giving this very bad example 

Of making water into wine, which is a miracle. 

Such modus operandi sounds so empirical. 

In early days, traditions were the style; 

Priests, of different nations, kept them on file 

For use, and general distribution; 

This honor to Jesus was by the Alexandrian Institution ! 

He wore no tiara — no robe of costly lace; 

His deeds for humanity were reflected in his face. 

The Sabbath law that Moses gave was harsh and cruel: 

The culprit would be stoned to death for gathering fuel 

On a day so holy; but the great reformer said, . 

1 The Sabbath was made for man,' and gladly led 

His disciples o'er the temple of his God 

Of Nature, doing good upon its sod. 

God never rests, and so it will ever be, 

All days are holy in the grand eternity. 

The Sunday law cannot stop the sun from shining, 

Nor tell the cloud to cease its silver lining; 

It can't control the music of the stars, 

Nor change the course of these electric cars. 

The rain rejoices in its journey to the earth; 

The rainbow says, * no desolating dearth 

Shall come to flower, fruit or tree; 

The Sunday Law has no power o'er rain or me — 

My colors shine as brightly in the seven ; 



56 THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 

All are holy on the map of heaven. ■ 

Every pagan came before me in this scene^ 

Exclaimed in horror that Constantine, 

A murderer, should dictate the day 

For Christians to worship and to pray! 

Among the deeds of Jesus, this, the most unusual of all: 

Often did he hear piteous moans — a woman's call 

For help; these immortal words were written in the sand: 

* He that's free from sin, send the missile from your hand 

At woman.' Not one was thrown, 

For justice was written on each stone." 

Adam thought, how wonderful were her visions in the 

night; 
Her inspirations were her guide to what was right. 
~*He could not help, nor cared he to resist 
The desire to approach his Eve, and kissed 
The being, that was to him great joy; 
This was peace, witfiout the least alloy. 



CHAPTER XXVL 

The Trinity. 

When God began to study the import of his book, 

His features wore a most puzzied look. 

His reflections were, " I love one God the best; 

Yet, in my book, are written all the rest: 

What did I say — three Gods ? What an absurdity ! 

Yet, one, is three times one, you see !" 

Beaded drops of perspiration began to ooze 

From his forehead, when about to lose 

His senses; 'twas written plainly in his holy book. 

His son was there, and his saintly being shook 

With fear. " Must not allow him to invade 

The kingdom, which only I, have made ! 

Did not wish to ba on equal terms with him; 

The son to be the same as 1, is very dim. 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 57 

I have made Isaiah say 'no Savior, God, but me.' 

'Tis an enigma, to make this book agree. 

Another grave affair— about the Holy Ghost: 

This statement worries me the most. 

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost — think of such a plan ! 

This is a brilliant scheme ! no Jew will, or ever can 

Believe it." For once, he loudly laughed — 

" A new system in the old, I will engraft: 

Who will be Christians ? they will like this mystery — •■ 

Much to their credit in all their future history ! 

The more mysterious I make it, for all of thern, 

'Twill be highly prized, and yet called a ' little gem.' 

Though I am a personal God, yet, am everywhere — 

Then the Devil will claim a godly share ! 

This increasing mystery will be the cost 

Of millions of people that will be tempest tossed 

In doubt; will be engulfed within 

A sea of Persecution, for this little sin 

Of not believing all that's written in this book, 

Impossible to fathom, or, its mysteries brook/' 

He arose from his throne, walked briskly through the 

aisle; 
His features shone with the most benignant smile; 
In merriment wrung his jeweled hands — 
The first time, to his page, gave kind commands ! 
Instantly, became quite pale and wan, 
For in his holy book, with the title of St. John, 
Says, " ' No one hath seen me at any time, nor could they 

live 
If they should see me face to face ! ' Such a text to give 
My people ! What would Adam think, and Eve — 
Such an astounding message no thinker will believe ! 
If a heretic in kindness should teach a little error, 
In my book, he'll soon know my followers are Sons of 

Terror. 
I shall cease to be afraid or have any serious fears. 
What if the earth is deluged with their tears ! " 



58 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

CHAPTER XXVII. 

The Tropics. 

The Devil gave this lecture while in the tropics: 

" Here is a fund for various godly topics. 

Godly, did I say ? Not those of written lore 

That would enslave the mind forevermore; 

Not that kind of gods am I interested in, 

But those so holy are minus aught of sin. 

Such a place among the lovely trees ! 

Where they love to sing their peans to the breeze. 

In her gallery — among the branches green, 

Darting here and there are radiant warblers seen. 

This choir chants for aye their grandest anthems c ear 

'Till the soul in rapture doth revere 

Earth's phases in any manner she presents — 

Her will, her power, her harmonious intents. 

No wonder maelesto is the strain, 

So full of grandeur is the rich refrain. 

Her chasuble, white as the pinions of the dove — 

Fine emblem of her ministry of love. 

No soiled priests warping human will, 

Circumscribe its force, to Reason say, 'keep still;* 

No indulgence sold to build St Peter's Hafl; 

No sophism to keep members in a brawl 

Nature is a sacred house I reverence, this Tocalli; 

In this temple presides the ^odly Allah. 

'Tis a book of science; her pages I adore — 

Full of beauty is her written lore. 

I kiss thy soil for in our mother's lap 

Lies divinity; let me in thy mantle wrap 

My form; all is pure and chaste. 

Naught to degrade — let me from thy chalice taste 

The elixir of life's most consecrated wine; 

Thou art, indeed, the Allah or the Vine. 

Let me inhale the sweetness of thy breath; 

I see glory in the change of death. 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 69 

All return to thy grateful dust; 
The soul climbs in heavenly trust 
To a more spiritual state, 
Where man is destined to ever imigrate. 
No inertia in this grand machine, 
Kver in motion, for her destiny is seen 
In rock, flower, man, in all her moods, 
A kaleidoscope, reflecting, all her goods. 
When I look around, mystery is rife — 
This one problem: The source of life. 
Source, indeed, where can rest the cause- 
Where lies the secret of thy laws ? 
Nature is a volume; let me in rapture read 
The source of life. Where is the golden lead ? 
Science without the least declension 
Has traced the cell to the rocks laurentian ! 
Gaziug back to this royal line, 
Beauty can be seen in life divine. 
With microscopic eye the wondrous cell, 
This grandest mystery doth tell. 
The 'Tree of Life ' glistens with this power — 
That the sources of the bird and flower 
Are not the same, each living in a temple of its own, 
Out of which, it can ne'er be thrown. 
How fine is this golden chain, 
That reaches onward in the vein 
Of truth, up the steps of Time, 
Up the pyramid of facts sublime." 



CHAPTER XXVIIL 

Nemesis. 

The sun arose, but how faint the glow, 
Climbing as in a firmament of snow — 
So pale his light, reflected in the cloud, 
Soon to be lost in this aerial shroud. 



60 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Nature, in sympathy with this morn, 

Donned the robes which were so forlorn. 

Take a glance within a certain tent — 

Now we know the object of this lent: 

In this home a child is born; 

This, the reason, Nature is forlorn. 

Adam and Eve were bending o'er their boy; 

Her pride — his hope — all happiness and joy. 

'Tis to them, the sweetest little child ! 

In their ecstacy, were very nearly wild. 

They knew not the symbol of the cross — 

A picture, near him, denoting loss 

Of some great principle underlying life — 

The son of this noble father and his lovely wife. 

The words he said, " 'twould cost you very dear;" 

Their meaning crystallized right here. 

She in her agony " wishing she was dead;" 

Adam's anger placed a sword above his head. 

Words seem small affairs, but they cost so much, 

When poniards in the angry clutch. 

Nemesis wrote upon the wall, 
This draft of life or protocol: 
" The people living in each age, 
Think life has reached a wondrous stage 
Of civilization; 'twill take long years, 
To wipe from earth, some bitter tears. 
Tradition like a god of Hate 
Told man to rule his loving mate. 
If this command had been reversed, 
Crime would not be oft rehearsed; 
Woman's sway would have more fore* 
In guiding youth in life's true course. 
With morals pure as pure can bt. 
Unmixed by base unchastity — 
Rum, tobacco. Then in the line 
Of health, and principles, refine 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 61 

The spirit; from unwise ways be free — 
A blessing to posterity. 
Avoid which gives another pain, 
A dowry better than the gain 
Of wealth, for 'what you sow 
Shalt thou reap' — sunlight's glow 
Of joy or misery. Man should not keep 
The rights of woman. He will reap 
The tares; for, when Wrong 
Sits on the throne, he will prolong 
The agitation on Life's sea 
As long as exists white slavery ! " 
"If I'm your slave, my face I'll paint, 
As black as midnight's darkest taint \" 
The right of kings was held divine; 
The negro slave was by this line 
Of Justice kept in chains. Woman, too, 
Is held a captive from this view. 
Mankind will, sometimes, break the crust 
That holds Divinitv in the dust 
Of Superstition; its right of way 
Will be marked by Wisdom's sway; 
The clanking chains no more be heard; 
Disgrace will claim the unkind word 
That's spoken — the angry glance; 
Insults are a poisoned lance, 
That show ill breeding of the mind- 
Course, unfeeling, unrefined. 



CHAPTER XXIX 

Pagans. 

God concluded to call on his neighbors. 
11 A cessation from my arduous labors," 
Thought he ; so over the hity, 
Wended his way, by power of will. 



62 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Soon, he was in their hall of state, 

Greeted by gods that were grand and great. 

His attention, inadvertantly drawn 

To a picture; but the eye of a fawn, 

Changed to a tiger's glance, 

Asked, ." Did that come here by chance ? n 

" 'Tis Prometheus," was Jove's reply— 

" Is a God that foes will crucify 

Long ere your son be slain, 

In the same manner of godly pain [" 

The gods enjoying this lordly treat, 

Heard him in anger slowly repeat: 

* * L,o, streaming from the fatal tree 

His all-atoning blood ! 

Is this the Infinite ? 'Tis he, 

Prometheus, and a God ! 

Well might the sun in darkness hide 

And veil his glories in, 

When God, the great Prometheus, died 

For man, the creature's sin." 

He looked in another part of the room; 
If 'twere possible, a deeper gloom 
O'ershadowed his royal face; 
Toward it started, at a lively pace, 
To get a nearer view to see 
What manner of painting this could bo» 
41 A woman's picture on your wall ! 
Have you not read about my Paul ? 
She has no rights you should respect; 
We are the ones that are elect !'* 
Diana seemed ready to speak — 
Full of pity, when he should wreak 
Vengeance on those who ever would 
Work so well for his brotherhood — 
How they would labor in life's turmoil, 
These humble, pious pillars of toil. " 



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More, and more angry, God became — 
Thought the pagans were very tame. 
11 This, to her honor,' ' he reluctantly said— 
These lines with dignity, read : 
" Great Diana ! huntress queen ! 
Goddess bright, august, serene 1 
In thy countenance divine 
Heaven's eternal glories shine. 
Thou art holy ! Thou alone, 
Next to Juno, fill'st the throne I 
Thou, for us, on earth was seen; 
Thou, of earth and heav'n be queen 1 
They to thee who worship pay, 
From thy precepts never stray; 
Chaste they are, and just and pure, 
And from fatal sins secure; 
Peace of mind 'tis theirs to know, 
To thy blessed sway who bow; 
Chastest body, purest mind — 
Will, to will of God resigned; 
Conquest over griefs and cares; 
Peace for ever, peace is theirs." 
God said, he would bid them adien, 
For he had work he wanted to do ! 
Minerva thought of Mr. Watt — 
Would give word-picture of God as he ought: 
11 His nostrils breathe out fiery streams- 
He's a consuming fire; 
His jealous eyes his w/ath inflame, 
And raise his vengeance high'r !" 



CHAPTER XXX 

The Devil in France. 
I see cathedrals, costly and rare, 
Have been the home of the grizzly bear. 



64 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Bartholomew's day is a rebuke to creeds, 

When a saint is honored by crimson deeds? 

The influence floats o'er every dome — 

Pronounces the doom of the Pope of Rome, 

Bruno's statue, near the Vatican, 

Is an object lesson of his love to man 1 

Over her borders the refugee 

Gladly escaped from fine and fee. 

The fagot, dungeon, sword and flame, 

All conspire to crush the name 

Of freedom — the right o think; but the hand of 

Progress 
Stays the gait of the prowling tigress. 
I see now a noble, old man — 
The gifted Voltaire — leading this van 
Of a far better army, with no inclination 
To take the life of any relation. 
It a cloak is made from the hide of the sheep, 
The wolf is there; if you constantly keep 
A dagger — the object, to kill 
Any person for the sake of a will, 
He judges superior, who freely directs 
You to murder as a godly pretext. 
The same spirit, has the goddess Kali, 
Who wishes her victims to strangle, 

and die 
Some way. Such trophies, her anger appease, 
The murderer expects his Paradise fees ! 
The Thugs are gracious, and very polite;- 
To strangle and kill, their greatest delight ! 
" Brothers of Good Will J ,, and " Brothers so Good/* 
Are the cloaks they wear in this brotherhood ! 
The brothers called Christians, are ever elate, 
When guiding a throne, or ruling a State. 

Here's an episode, on a very small scale — 

" 'Twould make the visage of savage turn pale:" 

Chevalier de la Barra offended a God; 



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He threw, on a cross, some of his sod ! 

How was he punished ? A growl through the screen, 

Said to the I^aw, " By way — guillotine !" 

God's anger, no doubt, was greatly appeased; 

The dutiful tiger was very well pleased. 

An indulgence was granted for the next forty days 

To those who'd simply on the crucifix gaze. 

In classical Athens, who'd an image profane, 

Minerva would look with great disdain, 

Upon their City; so, religion, we see, 

Is really the same in its strange piety. 

No wonder, when the noble Voltaire, 

Saw Superstition crawl from its lair 

To murder its victims, he thereby provided 

A trap for this monster o'er which he presided 

With care and attention, by way of the pen, 

Which flew on its mission— a lover of men. 

This man will be a long time maligned — 

His books cursed by priesthood refined. 

I see his farm at beautiful Ferney; 

Oft to this mecca, in thought, love to journey. 

His heart, full of love, bade the fugitive flee 

To Switzerland's home, for liberty ! 

A hundred years' war with its dire oriflamme 
Hovered o'er France 'til the peasants' " god dam" 
Was a by-word, for the English persisted 
To quell proud France, but she nobly resisted, 
'Til all her powers were about to expire, 
And France lie forever on her funeral pyre. 
Joan of Arc came to the rescue of France; 
She heard a sweet voice bid her advance, 
To save her dear land from deep desolation — 
Fast coming to this the French population. 
The voice told her, she'd crown him at Rheims 
Their king — how like the strangest of dreams I 
To be guided by angels, is forever a shame; 



66 THE NEW GARDEX OF EDEN. 

And the law of Moses was seen in the flame, 

That sent her pure spirit from its temple of clay. 

There is, in her honor, a statue, to-day, 

Humanity gave, which is better than creeds — 

" 'Tis charity's glow in the sunlight of deeds. 

The Law of Moses, sweeps down through the ages, 

With a terror sublime, as onward it rages; 

To the New Testament pays no attention ; 

Rejoices in the s.rife of the " bone of contention;" 

Never stops to listen to voices so sweet, 

The disciples of Jesus were happy to greet. 

Liberty, surely, is gaining the day; 

She finds her strength in this priestly affray. 

Keep watch of this idol; let not PInfame 

Mar this statue, or blacken its name. 

O'er this land hovers the hand of a woman, 

True daughter of Nature, the child of a yeoman. 

'Twill ever remain to give you new life; 

To gather new forces, her mission is rife 

To develop for woman a higher acclaim, 

That will give her honor, glory and fame. 



CHAPTER XXXI. 

Little Cain. 

At first, 'twas a puzzle to give baby a name; 

Many were mentioned, proved shallow and tame. 

" I know one," said Adam — '* Cain is the word, 

For it is likened to God, or our Lord." 

He, in ecstasy, hardly knew what he said; — 

O'er Eve there flitted a shadow of dread, 

At the thought, " what would become of our boy 

If he, like God, should seek to destroy 

Our hopes in life's busy mart." 

Just then, she noticed their baby, so smart, 

Had crept far beyond the door of the tent — 



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67 



A gay, little captain on this voyage was bent, 

Laughingly rowing his own little boat, 

"Too soon," thought Eve, " to be thus set afloat." 

Adam remarked, "we've reached life's lagoon, 

Sailed in the haven to the beautiful tune 

Of the dear song of ' Home, Sweet Home,' 

Secure from the lashings of ocean's high foam !" 

Bve's motives, and each aspiration, 

Were first in the crucible, to suffer cremation, 

If they stood the test of Reason's bright glare; 

She gladly divided the wheat from the tare. 

Daily symbols, transparent and fine, 

Flowers of light in their essence divine, 

Transferred to her spirit a halo of peace. 

An arbor so holy gave no surcease 

Of joy; she filled up the measure 

By giving surprises of beautiful pleasure. 



CHAPTER XXXII. 

'Wine. 

" No one must worship the golden calf; 
I must not be content with half 
My dues," thought God; must be only me, 
If I am composed of one times three ! 
Isaiah says, I form darkness and light; 
I create evil which is certainly right; 
I bring unto Judah all the evil pronounced- 
I'll bring evil upon all flesh I announced. 
That's to my satisfaction, entire — 
Such wise sayings I greatly admire ! 
Evil is found in the blood of the vine; 
Moses knew I loved the incense of wine, 
As it rises to heaven a delicious perfume— 
The finest aroma in my beautiful room! 
I see in the ages to come, 



68 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Temperance fading in the shadow of Rum— 

For India, China, and Japan, will fall; 

My example, too much for them all ! 

I roar from my habitation, 

To frighten my Israel nation; 

To let them know my object is solely 

That my heavenly home is very holy ! 

'Tis a fact — indeed, no William Penn, 

Could e'er quell my race of men, 

By kindness; was obliged to change 

My ten commandments, which is so strange 1 

Man is king in his Jewish home, 

If he wishes his wife to roam 

The streets; writes a ' Bill of Divorce;' 

This law can enforce 

At his pleasure; some will preach 

Of easy divorce, but not how I will teach !" 

Troy, his page, gave him a note 

From Jupiter; this message wrote 

To God: ' King of the heavens and earth, 

I wish to inform you of a woman of worth, 

Whose eloquence wields 

A power by her various shields 

Of strength — a Minerva in the kingdom of Duty — 

A Laksmi in the empire of Beauty 

Of spirit — at a temperance meeting 

Gave the members this geeeting: 

Though being Christians, would like to know why 

You are deaf to woman's cry 

Of distress, and not to redeem 

Her from sin; to rise in esteem 

Of mankind she's a Colussus most grand, 

' A Specter of Brocket by the wisest command, 

E'er engraved on the Cloudland of Time 

That shall reap rewards for wisdom sublime. 

Though she partakes of life's bitte* drug, 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN, 69 

Her crimes as black as the villainous Thug, 

Have pity, I do humbly beseech, 

Ere she's far beyond reach 

From sinking in some Stygian lake, 

Ere the heart in its angush is ready to break. 

I^et pity rest in the heart — 

A song-bird of love, a music impart; 

A word of good cheer to a woman who sins, 

For this is the pathway holiness wins. 

You cannot arise by crushing another; 

A Samaritan for sister, as well as for brother. 

How many times has she sought, but in vain 

To unclasp from her soul this prison -like chain I 

To heaven for mercy in secret hath cried; 

Her invocations, grossly denied 

By Fate, that custom now gives, 

To keep her degraded as long as she lives 

In vice and crime, for the fall of the woman 

Was the curse given by priestly foe man ! 

It shows how deep, at this holy convention, 

Custom is King, by the following invention: 

A Quakeress prayed for her to meet with conversion, 

To erase such sins by Christian immersion ! 

I wish to say, also, to my excellent neighbor, 

Who will be first for woman — will labor ? 

'Tis womanly instincts that will lead by the hand 

A sister to the beautiful strand 

Of virtue; from the dark waters of sin, 

Where kindness will generally win. 

I see houses erected in the dear name of Home, 

An under-ground railroad where she never will roam, 

Save to walk on a far, higher plane, 

Never to be seen in dark waters again. 

God, King of the earth, and the sky, 

I now bid you a respectful good by. 

—Jupiter." 



70 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

CHAPTER XXXIII. 

Tlie Devil in the Arctic Regions. 

11 1 love to come on this northern trip, 
To view again the 'Devil's Nip;' 
With joy I see the frost and snow, 
A glorious route where'er I go. 
Nature paints with master hand, 
Royal pictures that are grand 
Upon her canvas pure and white, 
Emblematic of the right. 

The ice-berg bursting from the shore 
Its glacial parent with a roar; 
Where it glides the ocean's hue 
Reflects the berylline in blue. 
It passes onward through the gate, 
By crimson cliffs, in royal state. 
Every monster when afloat, 
Bears freedom's flag upon each boat; 
In course of time, when sun -kissed, 
Hies homeward in a veil of mist; 
When tempest-tossed by cold and storm, 
Rests awhile in many a form; 
Be congealed as beasts of prey 
Or fairy bridge of frozen spray. 
Yonder stands the polar bear; 
A crouching lion in its lair; 
Sparkling flowers on icy trees- 
Beauty reigns with quiet ease; 
Countless gems adorn her throne, 
In this frigid, frosty zone. 

A Gothic church, in bold outline- 
Arches draped in flowery vine. 
A flat-roofed temple, is the style, 
Like one reflected in the Nile. 
Columns gave each door or gate 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Hue cerulean — quite ornate. 

Huge ice-floes clash and grind, 

Resounding on the Arctic wind 

Like a storm at sea, 

Terrific in its majesty. 

Ice-floes tinged with gold, 

Purple seen in every fold 

Of icy robe; peaks arise, 

Lost in heights of sappharine skies; 

One resembles the spire St. Paul's; 

One, by immersion, Niagara Falls. 

Holy Water, is seen in the air, 

Sparkling in light, most everywhere; 

It sweeps through the sky in manifold forms, 

Reveals its glory in earthly storms; 

It falls to the earth in diamond dew, 

Reflects its mission in lovely hue; 

It dances down the mountain side, 

On to the sea in regal tide. 

Each fountain exclaims, 'I am divine, 

For I give life to flower and vine.' 

Neptune, from his home in the sea, 

Says, ' water is holy as holy can be.' n 



CHAPTER XXXIV. 

A Mystery. 

What can this mean — Nature ablaze 
With glory, in this luminous haze I 
Fungi, a phosphorous light, 
Are lamps at this time of night. 
Nasturtium, marigold, poppy, 
Emit flashes of light, to copy 
This example, which is not silly, 
Exclaims the electrical lily ! 
Rhyzopoda, like lava on land, 



72 THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 

Great numbers are seen on the strand. 

Now they're afloat on the sea — 

An event transpiring, what can it be ? 

Annelides white light doth evolve, 

A mystery would all like to solve. 

Tunicata in the tropica! seas, 

Made waves of light in the midnight breeze; 

Glow-worms of every descrpition, 

Fire-flies by Nature's conscription, 

Lent their magnificent charm — 

Should have no fear in these harmless alarms. 

Meteors, too, of various sizes 

Were striving for luminous prizes; 

Some, very large, were brilliant as suns, 

Others bursting, their noise like guns 

In war in a brisk cannonade 

Were the voices in this cavalcade ! 

Beautiful, majestic and grand, 

They shone o'er the sea and the land; 

Some carried in their meteor train 

Pellucid light or luminous mane; 

One on the serial march 

Of igneous crimson formed an arch, 

Iridiscent as a beauteous bow, 

Over a tent this electrical glow ! 

Lumen Boreale or streaming lights 

Were seen in their various heights; 

Pyramids and flaming spires 

Were formed by electrical fires; 

Some truncated or reached half way, 

Others to Zenith in a flaming ray. 

At times, a whirlwind girate, 

Then pass to another state 

Of blazing lances and pillars o l blood, 

Assume these shapes in this fiery flood. 

Joy reigned in the tent, for this little fable 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Would not be complete without brother Abel. 

"This is a child,' ' said the dove to its mate, 

" Of love, by order of Fate; 

Nothing wrong here, for he's a love-child — 

No brand of oats running wild. 

He will be worthy his name — 

He never will live in the shadow of shame." 



CHAPTER. XXXV, 

Troy. 

When Troy went to the Pagan forum 
He thought it sanctum sanctorum; 
The pagans treated him kindly — 
Were never in manner supinely 
Indifferent about working, but planning 
Schemes for good, and mentally scanning 
The earth -plain, to ever devise 
New plans, and wrong ones revise. 
Troy saw this, and liked the plan; 
He was fast becoming a noble man. 
Their gods were not perfection- 
Were war-like some; by close inspection 
They were not such godly terrors 
As some are shown by priestly errors. 
He saw the jealous defiance 
The Christians held for pagan science. 
The Christians taught the earth was flat; 
The pagans knew much better than that, 
So taught the earth was round. 
Christians concluded with minds profound, 
To destroy the priceless pagan books; 
God's wrath was appeased by their cheerful looks I 

Troy told God they were busy as bees, 
In the hive of industry, trying to please 
Humanity, by giving astronomical signs 



74 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

And problems, also in geometrical lines. 
Would impress Buclid and many others — 
Be a great chain of intellectual brothers. 
Women would be greatly inspired 
In science; philosophy in wisdom attired 
As queens in the realm of mentality — 
A galaxy of stars in the dome of reality. 
Keep this creedal plank in view — 
Wine they teach to e'er eschew. 
'Tis poison, to the crimson flood — 
A lurking serpent in the blood. 
A chart should be in every school, 
To see this serpent in the pool 
Or blood; colors change from pink to black; 
The stomach's lining is the track 
Of vipers, when in the "tremen's" wrath, 
Hiss along the darkened path. 
Teach a child to e'er rely 
On manhood's strength and purity; 
Let will-power give it self-respect- 
No lovely attribute reject; 
Live to be a source of light, 
A guiding star for all that's right. 



CHAPTER XXXVL 

-The Devil's Museum. 

Calvin said, "the bible contains 

All knowledge, and science profanes 

The mind." Did Copernicus teach the sun stood still 

That the people might plunder and kill? 

Did he tell beautiful tales 

About Samson, Jonah and whales ? 

His science taught the earth revolves 

On its axis, and numerous resolves 



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75 



Were made to quiet their fears; 

Kept him for thirty-six years 

From printing his book; 

Gave pagan science a savage look. 

Melancthon claimed the bible to teach; 

"Joshua's astronomy is all one need preach l" 

Cassini, the Dominican father, 

Said "the DeviPs the author 

Of geometry;' ' the Church did promote 

Him; Bishop Fiesole, his vote, 

The same; Gallileo, in a dark inquisition, 

Found his exalted position ! 

"I'm the author of the gift of astronomy, 

As well as the science, geology. 

It conflicts with a godly style 

Of creation; who e'er heard aught so vile ! 

I glory in my Devil theology — 

This wonderful science geology. 

Medical science, opposed by the church; 

They were ready to search 

For the Devil. St. Augustine 

Taught 'twas too sacred to glean 

Knowledge of the science anatomy ! 

Disease, an anamoly; 

'Tis better adjusted 

By God — not to be trusted 

To man. Pope, Innocent III., 

Forbade surgical work — this Infallible Word ! 

Pope Honorus, against it as well; 

Dominicans banished books that would tell 

Such terrible truths; Pope, Boniface VIII., 

Said their greatest physician had the Devil's faith f 

These are my professions; 

Now give my honored possessions. 

This invention is a Fanning Mill; 

The church declared 'twas against the will 



76 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Of God ; let come what may, 
The wind should always have full sway. 
Lucifer matches, an emblem rare, 
For light shall spread most everywhere ! 
' This boat propelled by steam, 
Is an invention, I deem 
To be useful; the church did oppose 
This vile heresy — that terrible woes 
Would accrue. God said the mail 
Should go by way of the wind and the sail! 
The next invention, I confess, 
Is also mine — the printing press ! 
Here, I see the light of flame — 
Prometheus' torch in lasting Fame. 

Church Inventions. 
On this door you see the Dove; 
Within are symbols of God's love 
To man ; Justice whispers this to me— 
* Here lies one source of heresy !' 
A Collar is the first I'll show 
You — an invention; priests know 
How on the neck 'tis worn. 
Imagine the suffering borne 
By the victim; iron points, you see, 
Soon hurls them out of misery ! 
Here's a virgin, doll-like — 
Contains many an iron spike; 
Clasps Heresy in its loving arms 
'Til death ensues by priestly forms ! 
Many holy inventions are in this room, 
O'er which Bigotry pronounced the doom 
Of the heretic. Where do all the curses lie ? 
Who gives blessings — God or I ? 
Will they pour their holy chrism, 
On the sainted head of Spiritualism V\ 



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CHAPTER XXXVIL 

Face to Face. 

In process of time, Abel and Cain, 

Were young men — good boys in the main. 

Abel tended the cattle and sheep; 

Cain worked in the garden, to reap 

What he had sown — the seeds of the wheat. 

At even, they heard their father repeat, 

The story how God had created 

The heaven and earth, 'til they rated 

Him a wonderful God. 

Why did he not visit their sod 

Again ? would it not bring 

Him, by giving an offering? 

This, too, would his anger appease? 

This would certainly please * 

His majesty; so Abel, to prove, 

Brought his sheep to see if his love 

Would descend; Cain, his fruit, 

The best he had — 'twould suit 

Him. God quickly came; 

Why did he not treat them the same ? 

Abel's gift was greatly respected; 

Cain's was in anger rejected ! 

Why such treatment from his noble relation ? 

This gave him his first, his only temptation. 

Not being well-balanced, he sailed down the stream, 

Without a struggle to try and redeem 

Himself from the cataract steep, 

O'er which, he would suddenly leap 

Into the dark waters below. 

" Ye reap always as ye doth sow." 

Cain and Abel went into the field; 

Cain was wroth, and would not yield 

To better thoughts than discontent, 

So on poor Abel his anger spent. 



78 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Abel said kindly, " perhaps the next time, 

He'll do differently, or help you to climb 

Out of such feelings; please be not sad." 

Cain looked like God, he was so fearfully mad I 

I'll teach you not to talk to me soft; 

A club in his hand, which he held aloft, 

Descended, killing poor Abel. 

The brand of the murderer's label, 

Cain had to wear, to be his, during life, 

For not quelling in time, this feeling of strife. 

Cain was astonished at the terrible deed ! 

Quickly God came. Did he try and lead 

Cain in a better, and far nobler way ? 

Did he tell him such an affray 

Was hurtful — 'twas better, by far, 

To be good, and never to mar 

His soul by such unboylike transactions, 

Which, in their nature, have no attractions 

For just people ? 'Twas quite the reverse; 

He stood there, and did nothing but curse, 

'Til in agony, said Cain, " I declare, 

'Tis really more than I'm able to bear !" 

Pity the boy, for who's really to blame, 

For bringing this sorrow, anguish and shame ? 

See Abel's body lying cold at the feet 

Of God and Cain. Vengeance is sweet 

On an offender — his curses to shriek; 

This manner ungodlike, and weak ! 

All over the mountain and hills, 

Were seen the rack, the stake; and the rills 

Were gory as the beautiful Seine, 

When thousands of Huguenots slain. 

The glaring axes of the dread guillotine, . 

In great profusion, were seen, 

To lend their aid in this holy slaughter, 

Where blood flows freely as water. 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 79 

The Duke of Alva is bearing the cross — 
Slays without mercy, 'til the Netherlands loss- 
Fifty thousand men and women, 
For a little difference by way of opinion! 
The Waldenses were followed for many long years, 
Having no pity for their sorrow and tears ! 
Beaten with clubs, on the rocks are they killed, 
Thinking a foundation to build 
Of the Church of God, which will better secure 
From his wrath — he, so holy and pure ! 
At last, these fugitives flee 
To dark, dismal caves to see 
If these fiends could possibly avoid, 
Ere their numbers be wholly destroyed. 
See Holiness building those terrible fires ! 
At the mouths of the caves all life thus expires I 
Four hundred infants are dead in one cave, 
With their mothers, in this holy grave 1 
Behold, the great Charlemagne, 
Is a Christian, by the number slain 
At his command; his career 
Is marked with bloodshed, carnage and fear. 
Only the duration of thirty short years 
Did he murder, 'tis to his glory appears. 
He carried the banner — the religion of love — 
Believe or be killed, as the command from above t 
Again, o'er the hills, are various raids, 
To recover a city by holy Crusades. 
See the suffering, the murder and loss, 
All to reclaim the home of her cross ! 
'Tis done for the glory of God — 
This the way that's narrow, not broad ! 
Simon Montfort, the " Churches' Avenger," 
Received a commission against every offender 
Or heretic; well did he plan, 
To ruthlessly murder his brother-man. 



80 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEK. 

England, with her flaming sword, 

Carries the gospel — the bible, her Word, 

To slaughter the harmless Sepoys; 

Such religion, she ever enjoys. 

See, all along, how the colonies bleed, 

By the holy example of this Moloch of Greed ! 

Russia holds her cross very high — 

In vain the fugitives from her myrmidons fly; 

How many are sent to those terrible mines, 

In Siberia ! Where is there a shrine that refines ? 

Flames arise from the fagot and stake, 

Thousands dying in this sulphurous lake. 

Millions of people are slain, 

Which to the thoughtful, is plain 

Love never murders nor kills; 

No blood in the beautiful rills 

Of her empire; in her school 

Is found the light of the Golden Rule. 



CHAPTER XXXVIIL 

Tlie Devil Visits Mammoth Cave. 

"Am now in a wonderful grave; 

'Tis Nature's — the great, Mammoth Cave. 

'Tis the largest in all the earth plain — 

Worth while to come here again and again. 

A sarcophagus, where are beauties entombed; 

Nature's grotto, where flowers have bloomed 

For thousands of ages in ossified form; 

Glory effulgent where the wind and the storm 

Held no sway; still, Beauty is here — 

Her reign we should ever revere. 

Go to the tropics — it adorns the fair earth — 

A gem-laden belt or flo .very girth; 

Go to the Northland, we see the pure crystal 

Sparkles in light in the baptismal 



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Font or the vapors — the snow and the rain — 

Her dominion extends o'er all the earth plain. 

In this part of the cave, the ceiling is high; 

Stars glitter as in the dome of the sky; 

The columns extend to the floor; 

Fluted, are they, and I greatly adore 

Their splendor — some grotesque, 

Ornamented in style arabesque. 

Graceful festoons show in the light 

Di apery resplendant and bright. 

'Tis an underground city, with long avenues, 

Extending each way, with its various views; 

So beautiful, I've not described 

Tithe of the perfection of its art here inscribed. 

Sculpture stands forth in relief, 

(Transcendent beyond mortal belief,) 

So perfect, so fine in all of its splendor, 

'Tis a pleasure to come here and render 

Thanks, for here's glory enshrined, 

And various forms of beauty combined, 

That we may adore wherever we trod 

This earth — Nature — our God. 

1 Fairy grotto, ' doth gaily assume 

The fantastical in its beautiful room. 

1 Star Chamber, ' with no priesthood severe, 

To sign death warrants are ever found here 

To tarnish a record or code, 

With crimson, in this blissful abode. 

1 Vulcan's Forge,' by the absence of fire, 

Denoting frail gods will expire 

Or vanish in darkness and gloom 

By the color of crepe in this room. 

The 'Chapel* seems a temple divine 

Where Jesus would pray at this shrine 

In secret, thus illumine his soul 

With majebty, power and self-control. 



82 THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 

Here's a 'Pulpit' and the Devil's 'Arm-Chair* 
At peace, at last, these opponents of air. 
'Hercules' Pillars' denoteth strength, 
By the superior length 

Of these columes; then, 'Valley Humility*— » 
Have to stop with the greatest timidity, 
For fear of striking the head 

On the rocks. 'Winding Way,' is something to dread 
By tourists; perhaps is a test; 
Like Mohammedans, invest 
Their peculiar religion, 
With this superstition. 
To obtain a pass to Paradise shore, 
No morals required on this narrow door—* 
(Two columns standing quite near 
Each other;) though the trial's severe- 
Try to squeeze through the gate; 
The men, pass to a heavenly state. 
' Flora's Garden' has snowy flowers, 
Beautifully wrought, as in fairy bowers; 
Roses and lilies in the greatest profusion, 
In Nature's parterre, in holy seclusion. 

Another room, as it greets my vision, 
Exclaim in delight, "this is elysianl" 
No monarch or king in the land, 
Could such a palace command 
At his pleasure; the diamond glow, 
Rich in their glory, in this region below. 

There are rivers in this wonderful cave, 

So placid, not a ripple or wave 

To disturb their waters; as I go down the stream 

Of the Jordan, my senses teem 

With delight, as I view the arch 

That contracts on the onward march, 

'Til I bow my head in fear of the rocks— 

These massive walls of granite blocks. 



THE NEW GARDEN OP KDEK. 83 

Now have arrived at Echo River; 

Here I'll pause and deliver 

Praise to Nature; reverently bow 

To all such splendor; secretly vow 

To learn and live by this power of love 

That is around, beneath, above. 

I bless mankind — I utter slowly — 

'I bless mankind, ' said the echo lowly; 

' I bless mankind,' said it again — 

Was repeated in a hallowed strain; 

Rich the murmur as it died in the distance— 

'I bless mankind, ' for his earthly existence, 

"frill be repeated by the echo of love— 

A message of light, wherever we rove.** 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 

Abel. 

God said unto Abel, " 'Tis curses you'll know, 

Will fall on mankind, deep as the snow 

In winter; 'twill fall very deep 

For their sins, and suddenly leap 

To their homes in that land 

Where sulphur oozes from the hot, burning sand 1 

Here, in this bible, it often occurs, 

As coming from God in ermine of furs. 

I am the one who issues these curses; 

Will give mankind their horrid reverses. 

God turned to a chapter that suited him best— 

The twenty-eighth he was in quest, 

In Deuteronomy; curses aglow on my pages, 

My wisdom to soar on the pinion of ages, 

Like vultures to frighten them in 

My fold — secure from all sin ! " 

Troy said to Abel: "By that elocution 

Would follow dire persecution." 



84 THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 

God said — " I've power to cleanse all stains- 
Could, if I would, bind the Devil in chains; 
But this is their fees: 
Non-believers must reside in Hades ! 
Abel, by your mother s great fall; 
The rest of mankind, no matter how small 
The infant, will live in perdition 
For your mother's sedition ! 
No one can come to my heavenly throne, 
'Til Jesus travels to earth alone — 
Along with me — and not with me ; 
Not quite clear, this pedigree ! ' ' 
God, for a moment, gave his book a review, 
This contradiction seemed to be true. 
He saw the bridge, like the rainbow's span, 
Was the spiritual highway 'tween the rainbow and man; 
But he lulled his conscience in the usual way, 
" My people don't think, but only will pray ! n 
To Abel, said he, "go from my lordly domain, 
Nor dare to visit my dominion again ! " 
Abel departed, very much grieved, 
To be so unjustly received. 
11 My mother fall," was his cry of disdain; 
" My mother fall," his heart full of pain. 
" What great sin could my mother do ? 
She, always so noble and true. 
She is my idol — I love her so well; 
All of us live in the dark dungeon of hell ! 
I scorn the assumption — I know there must be, 
A home somewhere in good company." 



CHAPTER XL. 

Tlie Devil in England. 
The "Magna Charta" of King John 
Was, in fact, republican. 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 

The despot's throne received the wave 
That lashed with force the tyrant's grave. 

As I glance o'er this domain, 
The dragon's eyes I see with pain; 
I see him chase with fiery brand, 
Pilgrims to a foreign land. 
Henry VIII. , a modest king, 
Appeased his Lord by offering 
Many souls as a sacrifice 
On the funeral pyre of his cruel vice. 
This protestant king, with loving grace, 
Beheaded two wives to give a place 
To others; two gave a bill of divorce. 
And two died, by the natural course 
Of events. This " Faith's Defender" 
Has a record full of royal splendor ! 
The Church of England cannot claim 
Its source is free from sinful shame. 
No follower of this saintly king, 
Should deign to give a cruel fling 
Of rocks at woman, who's ope'd the door- 
Resolved to be a slave no more. 
Divorce exclaims: " That woman's name 
Soars above some legal shame. 
The Dove that's wedded to a crow 
Cannot be spotless as the snow, 
When in his power, to bide his will 
When 'tis used for wrong or ill. * * 

Cobbett writes, with telling power, 
Of Innocence traveling to the tower 
Of London, and the stake 
Arose, aflame, as from a lake 
On fire; their shrieks I hear — 
Killed for the God they loved with fear. 
The Protestant child was like its mother, 
In slaying with care an innocent brother. 



85 



86 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Their numbers, writes Cobbett were visibly less 

In England, by deeds of holiness. 

Another chip from the saintly block, 

Landed quite near the Plymouth Rock. 

Their laws were blue as blue could be — 

Many were hung on the " sacred tree." 

Roger Williams, the first to claim 

The right to think, and for this shame 

Was driven forth, in sleet and snow; 

The religion of love told him, " to go !" 

No wonder this religion, so lowly and meek. 

Could not rest on the crowning peak 

Of the Constitution; this God of the Air 

Could not rule in a Freeman's chair. 

Now I behold another scene — 

A throne, a lady and a queen. 

I see upon her dazzling crown 

The gem that gives her most renown, 

When she refused with golden pen 

To help enslave four million men 

And women. Light transcends the kohinoor— 

Her heart in sympathy with the poor. 

This noble queen, with pen of flame, 

Inscribed on every heart her name; 

In America, gave her prestige as a queen, 

Whose influence rises in a sheen 

Of splendor, beauty, grace — 

A lover of the human race. 



CHAPTER XLL 

Tlie Brothers. * 
Abel was aware of his mother s great grief; 
Oft had he sought to give her relief 
From sorrow. Emotions of dread 
Would vanish, at times, at what the Devil had said 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 87 

A great while before, sa ; d she, in the gloom 

Of her grief: " Wish Abel would come to my room." 

He came; a vision was revealed to her sight — 

A sweet, sainted face illumined the night 

With a halo around him that gave her ceei peace; 

Shadows vanished, which proved a release 

From trouble. " Death/' she thought, is life's golden 

gate, 
Through which we'll pass to a heavenly state. 

Abel went to see his dear father — 

Found him quite sad. Said Adam: " I'd rather 

Give my life, than have our loved boys 

Plunge us in grief, and engulf our joys 

In darkness, in some deep abyss — 

Entomb our hopes and all our bliss." 

He received an impression; glanced to the sky; 

Thought a sweet presence to be very nigh 

Him. " Must be," thought he, " a home, 

Where we shall meet Abel, when e'er we roam 

From here. I'll bide my time, 

When to our dear boy, in gladness will climb." 

Abel was joyful that he had given, 

His parents a glimpse of his heaven. 

Abel found Cain in the toils of remorse; 

Its whip lashed his spirit with terrible force — 

In anguish, exclaimed, " why did I take the life of 

another ? 
Why did I kill my own, gentle brother ? 

Abel, if you'r living, can't you forgive 

Me, and inspire me to live 

A better life ? Pure emotions, from some angel-soul, 

Seems hovering near, to gain full control 

O'er my impulses. Shall, in future, redeem 

The past; in this hallowed gleam, 

I know I'm forgiven, 

For light has descended from heaven." 



88 TFB NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

A large institution arose to the view — 

A pri c commodious and new. 

Prisoners, used firn ly, as Justice demands; 

Kindness, the rule, by the higher commands 

Of the soul; by some cause and effect 

They've lost the bright star of self-respect. 

The cause, may arise in the foun ain or rill, 

Where the poison was drank, and the power of will 

Was broken. So ever be kind, 

In helping those who are morally blind. 

Cain wished to travel; said, " Ijnust go away, 

From the home, where that bitter affray 

Will not haunt me; where peace can abide, 

At some other home, by my own fireside. ,, 

The parting to all was a terrible trial — 

Must be boine by great self-denial. 

Cain started with his cattle and sheep; 

His father gave him some fruit to keep 

Him from starving; he bade them farewell — 

In a strange land, hereafter, would dwell. 

A few miles he traveled on Nature's fair sod; 

He came to a city, indeed, it was Nod ! 

" People here ! " he exclaimed: M how can that be ? 

Thought no one existed but our family ! " 

Look at those houses — I can hardly be ieve, 

Such a city was builded; who could deceive 

Us ? Here's a large caravan; 

Will ask, if they possibly can 

Tell me, where are they going ? 

Where they live, will be well worth the knowing. " 

When they came near, said — " I'd like to esk, 

(If it would not be too much of a task 

To answer), where are you going; where do ou live ? 

And a sheep, for y jur trouble, I gladly will give." 

The man replied: " I care for no sheep, 

This knowledge you can keep 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 89 

At your pleasure: I'm bound for a land, 

Where the people are many and grand 

In laws and physical science, 

And would bid defiance 

To any nation, that would in learning excel; 

In Egypt, is the land I love so well l" 

Cain listened; his wonder was great, 

To think such a prosperous state 

Could be so large. Onward, he went, 

Thinking, 'twas strange, who could invent 

Such a story as Eden. " Well, now have arrived 

Near the city; my cattle have thrived; 

Now will plant me a garden — 

Install myself as yoeman, or warden 

O'er my possessions: a wife I will get. 

Really, I may see happiness yet ! " 

In process of time he was duly married; 

Poor Cain constantly carried 

That one bitter thought, notwithstanding this scar, 

His spirit shone forth a bright, shining star ! 



CHAPTER XIII. 

The Devil in America. 

As I journey o'er the Sea, 
Toward the home of Liberty, 
I stand in rapture at the scene 
So grand, so holy, and serene 
Rests Liberty; on fair Bedloe's isle, 
A statue raised in gorgeous style, 
Showing Republics love each other, 
As mankind should a loyal brother. 
The Dragon's voice roars o'er the 'and — 
Exclaims, " Republics cannot stand; 
Have faith in Jesus is their cry, 
Then at any time are safe to die. 



90 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

For morals are no passport given, 

To live at last in great, high heaven." 

Their creed, indulgence gives, 

to the believer while he lives 

To sin ; for faith alone 

Wafts them to some holy throne. 

He that res s s temptation's sway, 

Has made his spirit bright as day; 

Is honor- d by the poison d dart 

Of scandal's cruel, hear J ess part 

To kill the one that dared to be 

A god of vast morality ! 

Jesus saw with great disdain, 
The narrow limits they attain, 
Who build a fence around a few; 
No matter whether Jew 
Or Gentile; he was known, 
To treat all nations as his own. 

Pii.'Sts have echoed at a 1 times 
* Heresy is the worst of crimes'; 
To give their fo^owers moral ease, 
Excuse to do quite as they please 
With those who think and reason well- 
Mind's outgrown the mystic hell. 
Withhold, awhile, your fee of gold, 
The priest sends you from 1 1 e fold 
By his saintly, tnaityr frown. 
fesus has no harp, nor crown, 
For such to wear. Jesus loves fine dress- 
Seems to increase his happiness ! 

11 Republics cannot stand ? 
See the towering Switzerland; 
She had her grand " Thermopylae," 
Which gave her strength in Liberty. 
Hark, I hear an eagle scream; 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 91 

His flight is like the lightning gleam; 
Two crimson beasts are on his trail- 
Finds no rest when they assail 
Him; so on they &y — 
These twin monsters of the sky. 
One exclaims, in thunder tone, 
4 * Jesus must be on the throne ;" 
The other, with terrific yell, 
Wants to stop the school-house bell 
From ringing. Public schools must shut the door; 
Ignorance, be their classic lore. 
Again, the first: "I'll rejoice, 
When unbelievers have no voice 
To take the oath, or ballot give 
To men that really should not live ! M 
Together, sing this merry song— 
To work or play is very wrong 
On the holy Sabbath day; 
Mark this, what Jesus had to say: 
11 My father works, and so do I, 
Good for great humanity !" 
The birds sang this hymn of joy, 
That God lets them all employ 
Their freedom, as they will, 
In songs of love, in merry trill 
On every Sunday of the year. 
The flowers, without aught of fear, 
Exclaimed, " all days are holy as can be 
To those imbued with purity. 
Gentle lambs skipped o'er the hills, 
Sweeter sang the mountain rills, 
When Jesus gave this fine ukase: 
"I'm opposed to those that praise 
Infinity; all days are holy, when good deeds, 
Rise above the musty creeds." 
The Confederacy, thought to please 



92 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Its God, so were at ease 

When it launched its Ship of State. 

Had God written on its slate, 

In love's name the guarantee 

Of success is Liberty ? 

Sometime the dragon's voice will cease; 

Then will reign that perfect peace, 

That is formed when love transcends 

To higher planes, with freedom blends. 

The eagle is in Washington, 

A regal bird to look upon, 

When Freedom rings from every bell 

Superstition's final knell. 



CHAPTER XLIII. 

Fate. 

God saw crevices all over his room, 

Thought the day of his doom 

Had come; snakes glide along. 

" Must be something wrong,' ' 

He exclaims — Hear the loud rattle, 

Like reptiles engaged in a battle I" 

Some said, with a powerful hiss, 

'•- Curses will give you much biiss, 

No doubt." Horror was deeply depicted 

Upon his face, to think he was convicted 

By his own creation. " O, what shall I do — 

The Dragons are coming in too !" 

"We've come home to roost, said each writhing snake, 

Like chickens, for we wish not to break 

A law that is as certain as Fate* 

Curses will return on your own Ship of State. 

Increased is the army by fine volunteers 

To remind you the Hate you've hissed forth for years !" 

This saintly and godly laocoon, 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 93 

Struggling for life by the power upon 

Him, (but his over mastering conceit 

Would prevail,) still would repeat 

The curses, 'til they were the cause of his doom 

Of death, for the curses were engraved on this tomb ! 



Oft had Abel been to see his mother — 

To see them all; was proud of Cain, his brother. 

It being the course of nature, his mother was to die — 

Then would live with him in the highlands of the sky; 

They together would roam 

O'er the emerald hill-tops, and visit many a home — 

See Nature's temples in spiritualistic forms, 

Safe from priestly, cyclone storms. 

Fountains of splendor in great beauty rise, 

Lovely statues, sculptured in the skies, 

Children learning wisdom from emblematic fountains, 

Tints of pearl surround the spray-like mountains, 

The color in the stream group from blue to rose — 

From rose to yellow, in which the spirit grows 

(Whether earthly, or one lives in heaven) 

In knowledge, wisdom to such are given. 

Blue denote th wisdom; all these combined, 

Form white — perfect truth — the sun-god of the mind. 

When white is tinted with the rose, 

The child is pure and loving — spirit grows 

In beauty; when this tint is with the blue, 

Is wisdom, purity — to every one be true. 

White, shaded with the yellow — that child is very pure; 

Universal knowledge t will e'er secure 

From any source. Be patient, with the child 

That asks so many questions — ilrnost tura voa <vill 

When many hues are blended with the white, 

With a rainbow edge, 'tis a halo very bright, 

Denoting various gifts that form a bow 

Of splendor, where'er the child may go. 



94 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Falsehood, creates a streak of black: 

To soil this aura, leaves a darkened track. 

Anger, will impress a blackened shade; 

Repentance, will cause it all to fade. 

A generous thought, or one stained with sin, 

The ambient air, reflects the temper you are in." 

Abel soon would have his mother with him, to see 

The beauties of his world; very quickly, would be free 

To view the people, that were already there. 

Civilization on the earth was almost everywhere ! 

Baalbeck existed, and her temples grand, 

Famed for their splendor on Phenician sand. 

Egypt, flourishing in all its pomp and power — 

Temples in India Heavenward did tower. 

Central America, with her Teocalli — 

Many costly fanes contained a godly Allah ! 

Soon was Abel at his mother's side; 

Adam, full of sorrow — how the child cried ! 

Abel, so happy, could not know this grief. 

Patiently waiting 'till she found relief 

From pain — said Eve, "I saw Abel's face; 

He appeared so happy, I could plainly trace 

Every feature." She kissed them; one and all; 

Her spirit released, some one seemed to call 

Her name. 'Twas Abel; her own loved boy; 

Both cried in their excessive joy. 

Mother, in the arms of her dear son — 

A glorious scene, sacred to each one. 

They soon arrived at the cottage door; 

In thankfulness, paused to adore 

Existence, in this universal plan — 

The final redemption of every earthly man, 

To rise secure from mortal pain — 

To live, for aye, on this seraphic plane. 

Within the precincts of this portal, 

On the petals of the flowers, was the word immortal. 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 95 

Birds sang their "Welcome" in the sweet refrain 
Of love in this celestrial Fane. 
Knowledge, was, indeed, the key, 
To unveil the low divine of mystery. 



CHAPTER XLIV. 

Liberty. 

"Few thousand years have rolled away, 
Still am basking in the light of day; 
A golden tinge is everywhere — 
It gilds the plains of dark despair; 
It rests upon the mountain's crest of woe; 
Kindness melts the hoary head of snow; 
Its sheen, in the garden of the heart, 
O'er flowers of Eden, a heavenly glow impart. 
Active in love — 'tis a photosphere — 
Its rays dispel the pearly tear. 
Knowledge is potential — its power refined, 
Triumphant in the universe of Mind. 
A priestly cloud eclipses e'er the sun; 
Will be fierce and strong, till its course is run. 
Each encroachment, on your rich domain, 
Adds blackness to the cloud of Pain. 
Why give the ballot and a place of trust, 
To a potentate that crumbles you to dust ? 
Any power, that tramples on your laws, 
Has no sympathy, with a freeman's cause. 
A Pope, that says his sway soars o'er a king, 
Or any ruler, has a dragon within his saintly ring. 
Rip Van Winkle, has at last awoke, to see 
The octopus, trying to crush your Liberty. 
His arms extend around the treasury of gold; 
And would blast the light of the little fold, 
Or public schools. If Superstition would let your rights 
alone \ 



96 THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 

You would not care who sat upon its throne. 

Many glance o'er the Atlantic Sea — 

Wish to gain the prize of greatest liberty. 
'. They come; does their gratitude extend 
5 Iyoyally, as a friend unto a friend ? 

Woman's eloquence, pleading for the slave — 

Bigotry wished to drive her to her cave 

'Twas then, she heard the clanking of her chain, 

Which made her sadly wise, and full of pain. 

Slander was upon her track; 

In vain, did it drive her back 

To slavery — in the stormy days of dark midnight — 

First ran for freedom and the right. 

She sees, through the nimbus of her soul, 

No power should e'er control 

Her life, or circumscribe her lines; 

No Eden lot midst flowers and vines — 

A green house, where no acorns grow; 

Where the sturdy oak its power can't know. 

The eagle, soaring to her lofty aerie, 

Ivoves her young the same as your canary; 

She will be the oracles of all the gods 

Of wisdom, truth, where e'er the human trods; 

She has no "Jewish Wailing Place," 

To mourn and pray; with a lofty grace 

Works her way by power of toil, 

Up the steps of Time on science* soil. 

" 'Tis well to have a burnished name," 

A servant girl remarked, while polishing the same. 

'Tis by this consecrated shield — 

Will enhance the glories of her field. 

Francois de Saintonges, was hooted in the streets; 

She had a school for girls, a curse greets 

Her. Now colleges arise, 

Gladly, by human enterprise. 

Daughters of Esculapins, inscribe upon the heart, 
Genius in their glorious art; 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 97 

Her wings of Inspiration, grow in power; 

•Knowledge is queen, in her fairy bower 

Of Eden; home is a flowery spot indeed, 

When not shadowed by any gloomy creed. 

Unjust laws, are crumbling in her hand; 

Justice will in future, reign all o'er this lovely land. 

Man, without love is an icy floe; 

An unwise woman, is a bank of snow. 

Let each combine the two — 

Love and wisdom — then harmony will ensue. 

Though I'm the Devil, I like the name; 

'Twas I, fanned Freedom into fame; 

Have worn the mask in great disguise, 

The instigator of Eve, to e'er be wise. 

My work is to set the captive free; 

Christians, fain would kill me — Liberty ! 

J let the fires that kindled Voltaire's flame — 

That blasted for a time his glorious name. 

Thomas Paine — believer in one God — 
Was condemned where Christians trod; 
His inspired pen, at the helm of State, 
Gave men hope not to disintegrate. 
Valley Forge, saw Freedom take its stand 
Firmly, by the magic of his wand — 
Wafted in love o'er each devoted head, 
A charm the British lion saw witii dread. 
I, also cheered him on his way, 
To break the chains of religious slavery. 
'Twas I, inspired Francois de Saintonges, 
For woman's higher progress. 
Let Miss Bowen, shout for all, 
As well as the gifted Ingersoll. 
Though I had an ugly sobrequet, 
Yet, I usher in the light of day. 
Let Freedom forge the chains — 
These are golden; 'tis progress it attaint 



98 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Which lead to higher planes of truth, 

Which do not keep you back forsooth. 

Liberty, is whispered o'er the hills; 

Liberty is the cadence of all the rills; 

Her shield is glittering in the north — 

'Tis the watchword called forth, 

By every songster in the glen; 

'Tis " peace on earth, good will to men !" 

Under its rule, each soul shall stand erect, 

As conscience, law, in mercy shall direct. 

Liberty speaks in thunder tones, 

From pole to pole, from all the zones, 

'Til it vibrates upon the sky — 

" Kindness ', is the key to harmony." 



PART SECOND. 



THE 

NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 



CHAPTER I. 

The Books of Moses. 

John W, Draper gives his views of the "Books of 
Moses", beginning on page 218, in his "Conflict between 
Science and Religion," as follows : 

" From the time of Newton to our own time, the diver- 
gence of science from the dogmas of the Church has con- 
tinually increased. The Church declared that the earth 
is the central and most important body in the universe; 
that the sun and moon and stars are tributary to it. On 
these points she was worsted by astronomy. She af- 
firmed that a universal deluge had covered the earth; 
that the only surviving animals were such as had been 
saved in the ark. 

" In this her error was established by geology. She 
taught that there was a first man, who, some six or 
eight thousand years ago, was suddenly created or called 
into existence in a condition of physical and moral per- 
fection, and from that condition he fell. But anthro- 
pology has shown that human beings existed far back in 
geological time, and in a savage state, but little better 
than a brute. Many good and well-meaning men have 
attempted to reconcile the statements of Genesis with 
the discoveries of science, but it is in vain. The diver- 
gence has increased so much, that it has become an al>- 
solute opposition. One of the antagonists must give 
wav." 




100 THE NEW GAEDEN OP EDEN. 

Further on he states that : 

" From Assyrian sources, the legends of the creation 
of the earth and heaven, the Garden of Eden, the mak- 
ing of man from clay, and of woman from one of his ribs, - 
the temptation by the serpent, the naming of animals, 
the cherubim and the naming sword, the Deluge and the 
Ark, the drying up of the waters by the wind, the build- 
ing of the Tower of Babel and the confusion of tongues, 
were obtained by Ezra " 

This account is taken from the apocryphal books of 
Esdras. Page 224, he writes: 

" Does not the admission that the narrative of the fall 
in Eden is legendary carry with it the surrender of that 
most solemn and sacred Christian doctrine, the atone- 
ment?" 

Bishop Colenso writes: 

"It is clear that the 'Books of Moses' cannot be im- 
puted to the sole authorship of Moses, since they record 
his death. It is clear that they were not written until 
many hundred years after that event, since they contain 
references to facts which did not occur until after the 
establishment of the government of kings among the 
Jews. No man may dare to impute them to the inspi- 
ration of Almighty God — their inconsistencies, incongrui- 
ties, contradictions and impossibilities, as exposed by 
many learned and pious moderns, both German and Eng- 
lish, are so great. It is the decision of these critics that 
Genesis is a narration based upon legends; that Exodus 
is not historically true; that the whole Pentateuch is un- 
historian and non-Mosaic; it contains the most extra- 
ordinary contradictions and impossibilities, sufficient to 
involve the credibility of the whole — imperfections so 
great and so conspicuous that they would destroy the 
authenticity of any modern, historical work." 

In the words of Rev. Lyman Abbott, pastor of Ply- 
mouth Church: 




THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 101 

11 1 do not believe the bible is infallible. I believe 
that it is an inspired book, but not infallible. We have 
one infallible book — Euclid's Geometry, The bible is a 
product of 3000 years' growth." 

The Popes of various denominations do not encourage 
investigation in the mysteries of the bible; hence, plainly 
shows how unreliable they regard the sermons they de- 
liver with apparent enthusiasm. Figuratively speaking, 
the members sit demurely in their respective pews, with 
eyes closed and say "yes," whenever the preacher states 
that two and two are five. All nod approval for fear of 
offending the preacher or God ! It is by fear that the 
self -hood is stultified, and mental slavery is the result. 

The pastors watch with care lest their followers es- 
cape from the illogical fence of their erection, into the 
world of thought, where science repeats that two and 
two are four. 

The fervid fathers consider scientists and liberalists as 
enemies to their creeds, and they regard them as culprits 
before the bar of God and worthy only the penalty to be 
given to enjoy the fumes of sulphur through all eternity ! 
They have this knowledge existing in the mind that is 
biased by the superstition taught them in childhood. 
To such inflammable material of religious thought, the 
liberal and scientist should be fined and imprisoned for 
not believing the many stories in the bible. Every 
time they have power they execute God's wishes most de- 
voutly ! 

There is a constant unrest among the pastors, and they 
feed their respective flocks with the spiritual diet that 
the nation needs God in the Constitution, or it will perish 
by the sin of infidelity ! The glorious Constitution of 



102 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

these United States rolled into existence in the manner 
that it did, to give science a home of peace, and that lib- 
eralism might not eventually be obliged to whisper its 
sentiments under the shadow of the tree of superstition 
for fear of being persecuted by loving Christians ! 

Can any of the denominations trust each the other in 
power to rule the destinies ■ of this nation 1 Certainly 
not. The child Protestantism has the same attributes of 
its mother — Catholicism. Quebec has recently viewed 
the jealousy of the two foes to liberty. The religious 
mob is the dynamite of superstition. If superstition was 
relegated to oblivion the war-cry of the savage element 
would cease to terrorize the helpless and peace would 
reign. Superstition has persecuted, to some extent, un- 
der the flag of liberty, but what would have been the fate 
of this land w r ere Catholics to gain full control ? What 
would be the result if Protestants were invested with politi- 
cal power 1 History is a warning that Jews, scientists 
and liberalists are the ones that would suffer by fine, dun- 
geon and the stake, for the sake of opinion. 

A tree is known by its fruit. The fruit is not divine 
w T hen it leaves an immoral effect to persecute even the 
vilest person that ever existed. In every soul is a spark 
of divinity; though many are encrusted by pre-natal im- 
pressions and wrong teachings, in early youth will become, 
sometime, a star of great magnitude in the firmament of 
heaven's great law of existence. Jews and liberals are 
self-poised in the realm of morals without the aid of Je- 
sus to help them to high positions in spirituality and pa- 
triotism. They never were known to take a dollar of 
public money and appropriate it for advancing their re- 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 103 

spective fraternities in any way. It is not patriotic; it 
is decidedly immoral. The Christian's pendulum of their 
creed, swings majestically from the great curse of " The 
Garden of Eden" to the opposite extreme of the improba- 
bilities of the atonement. 

Note — In the words of Henry Ward Beecher: 

"Jesus Christ said, 'I will go on earth and die in 
their stead/ is a doctrine as infernal as if it had come 
from the bottomless pit. 

" Any view that makes God first angry, and then pla- 
cated, is blasphemous. 

"God's brooding love — not God's avenging law, is the 
doctrine of the bible. God-saving is the doctrine of the 
bible, and not God-destroying. Hundreds of young 
preachers swear to preach this blasphemous system, not 
knowing what they do, and when they wake up and find 
what they have sworn to preach, they are silent. 

" Men are asking, ' What is the new theology V There 
isn't any; but men are finding their w r ay back to the old 
theology — that is all. It is a march backward, not for- 
ward. 

"It is the renaissance of theology fighting against 
the Bizantian; the Bizantian will go down and the new 
light will go up. I have heard men say of me, ' He is 
preaching a mush of divine benevolence.' I was not. I 
was simply taking away the barbaric notion of an aveng- 
ing God. I have been preaching the fatherhood and 
motherhood of God. 

" If we sin we shall in no way escape the penalty. 
How long it will last I do not know; that it will last for- 
ever I do not believe. 

" That men are to be made to suffer forever, to have 
an eternity of endless torment, I shall not believe outside 
of a lunatic asylum. 

"I shall not go to heaven if I must go through that in- 
fernal Confession of Faith to which 1 once subscribed, 
God forgive my ignorance — I abhor it." 



104 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

When a preacher is honest and his conscience active, 
the reaction is terrible to think he was instrumental in 
distributing false ideas to the members of his congre- 
gation. If his disgust is shown by bitter language, it 
should be regarded in the light of charity. 

Did Henry Ward Beecher wish to persecute Col. E% 
G. Ingersoll when he was invited to reply to Col. Inger- 
soll's arguments on the popular religions of the day! 
He refused to deflect the stream of oratory in that di- 
rection and the four thousand dollars had no weight to 
bear him down in the slough of greed. In contradis- 
tinction to this brightest light the Church ever produced, 
how was the famous agnostic used by the headlight of 
the wing of superstition — Rev. Mr, Talmage1 He 
would, if it had been in his power, dragged him before 
the tribunal of injustice and sent him to prison as the 
worst criminal in any penitentiary in the United States! 
It is sacrilegious, the Christians repeat, to say aught 
against the bible. The liberalists must not speak in self- 
defense against any persecution that may be hurled at 
them. The liberals have their rights for they are more 
peaceable than religious people who are vindictive in 
their thoughts and utterances. The liberals never pre- 
sent a petition to Congress to enact a law to take public 
money and appropriate it for the dissemination of what 
they believe to be truth. They regard such transactions 
as usurping rights; that is the same as purloining, which 
seems very much in the light of crime. 

The religionist says, " It is for the glory of God to dis- 
tribute the money from the treasury for sectarian pur- 
poses." Each sect proclaims its right to the money and 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 105 

m 

if divided among all of them, they would quarrel and 
persecute each other with peculiar zeal, and not long 
the treasury would be empty and our nation disgraced ! 
God would be glorified, surely ! 

Our nation has set the example of the white plume of 
peace, and it is the Jews and liberals that never have 
blackened the beautiful emblem of human rights. Under 
the banner of liberty science has flourished as at no 
time before in the history of nations. 

Liberals never would speak as they do, at present, of 
the crimes of the Churches if they did not seek to crush 
Liberty beneath the Juggernaut of superstition. 

What is meant by superstition ? The religion at the 
present period has been taken from the different pagan 
beliefs previous to the time of Jesus, and, also, since 
his time Christianity has engrafted the rites of the pagan 
ceremonies in their so called Christian religion. The 
pagans however, were learned in wisdom and in 
physical science, but the masses were unlearned and 
greatly superstitious. If the Christians had taken 
kindly to science and morals instead the worthless 
superstition of the pagans, not a person would ever 
have been sacrificed on the altar of persecution. 

A lecturer upon spiritual philosophy, in Yucatan, 
was annoyed by Catholics, who threw rocks at him 
while returning from his lecture. The Catholics were 
arrested. What did the lecturer do? Did he wish to 
gain notoriety as a martyr ? The voices told him to re- 
lease the Catholics ! 

Was Jesus ever known to throw rocks at any one by 
way of argumentation ? Verily, a tree is known by its 
fruit. 



106 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 



Scientists are more intelligent than the God of Moses' 
invention. Science has revealed the fact that the throat 
of the largest whale is three and one half inches in 
diameter. This is a conflict between science and the 
episode about Jonah and the whale. 

God did not know that in the regions of space above 
the earth the employees on the Tower of Babel could not 
live; so, he came to earth and performed the miracle of 
making them speak different languages which baffled 
their scheme from visiting God by the route of the 
Tower. This was an invention of ignorance, to account 
for the origin of various languages. No doubt, that 
they tried to reach heaven in that manner. 

Elisha and Elijah were in a secluded place with no 
one near to witness Elijah's remarkable exit from the 
earth. He was equipped with a chariot of fire and 
horses of the same element and a whirlwind was nec- 
essary to give the proper momentum to arise from the 
earth's attraction safely. Why did not God come to 
Elijah and command him to cease taking such an ex- 
cursion to his throne 1 for no one could breathe or have 
their being until Gabriel should blow his trumpet ! 

Literature in bible times was prepared to feed the in- 
tellect with unwholesome food that was deleterious in 
the extreme. The most improbable stories were be- 
lieved; hence the authors invented the menu thab was 
the most popular. 

When Church-members conclude to secede from the 
Church, they are like little children, in respect of not 
having been accustomed to do their own thinking. 
Great care must be taken not to fall into other beliefs 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 107 

that are. equally, and, perhaps, more absurd than the 
dogmas they once cherished as sacred. Sometimes fear 
drives them back, not being well equipped in knowledge 
of the contradictions of the bible and its many errors. 
To such people the Church is a solace, and the pastors 
like to establish that condition of mind. When they 
have a desire to persecute another, whether inside or out- 
side of the Church, is an indication they are far from 
living near the God they profess to adore. A vindictive 
spirit is not the sign of divinity that they think they 
possess. Yindictiveness thinks it has the prerogative to 
destroy the rights and privileges of others in regard to 
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 

The enthusiasts in the Church dislike the last inno- 
vation into their biblical arena for Evolution strikes at 
the root of their decaying tree with a force that is des- 
tined to annihilate, forever, its time-honored propoitions. 
The myth of the "Garden of Eden" being the founda- 
tion of the tenets of the Church, the sooner the truth is 
known the better for mankind. Evolution will never 
recede, but walks majestically to the altar and plants the 
banner of victory firmly in the rock of truth, and the 
tree falls, never more to be resuscitated and resume its 
former activity in supplying bitter fruit for humanity. 

Scientific truth is spreading rapidly and the Church is 
alarmed at the infidel Science, but modestly claim to be 
on warlike terms with Infidelity ! 

Nature's laws move on in one grand system of har- 
mony, without a flaw in its machinery. It is reasonable 
to suppose that if the bible was written by the dictation 
of a supreme ruler of the universe, that the inspirations 




108 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

would surpass all that could be composed by the most 
talented mortal. It would be chaste, pure, exalted in 
sentiment and its influence angelic, godlike. 

The bible was a wonderful production, in the ages of 
credulity and ignorance. A new work, written at the 
present time, would be relegated to oblivion that con- 
tained like errors and superstition. This fact is a sure 
indication that humanity has progressed out of its crude 
condition, and when it bids adieu, forever, to the bible 
as a holy book, it will be correspondingly pure and 
humane. 

The books claimed to be written by Moses, contain 
another view of the woman question but little understood 
by ladies that belong to the various Churches. The pas- 
tors failed to inform them that in the first chapter 
woman enjoys the prerogative of being on equal terms 
with man. Adam and Eve were endowed by the great 
Jehovah with the crowns as king and queen over their 
immense possessions which was the whole earth. To- 
gether they held the power to rule over every living 
thing. Adam and Eve must have been yery happy in 
their marriage relation. Marriage was not a failure in 
that case, for there existed no divinity whip in the word 
■ Q obey" to make Eve unhappy and to stultify the good 
qualities that Adam possessed. 

God created the pair, man and woman, and said his 
work was "good." He told no untruth in that respect, 
in being obliged to say that he made a decided failure in 
his enterprise, and it was justice to punish his poor work 
in a style worthy of one holding such a high position in 
the universe ! 



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109 



In chapter first, there existed no tree that was called 
"Knowledge," consequently, no satan visited their terri- 
tory who had conversational powers. 

It is a plain, matter-of-fact story, altogether too tame 
to give as a text in a sensational sermon. 

The complete subjugation of womankind was a theme 
dwelt upon with so much zeal that woman has bowed 
submissively to the rod they believed was sanctioned by 
the Lord. 

Woman's rights would have been popular, ages ago, if 
that tradition of the Garden of Eden had been worded 
for women to hold the power to rule man, instead of 
man enslaving women, he would strike for his rights 
very quickly. Peradventure, he would obtain his dues in 
a much shorter period of time than fifty years ! 

The Christian lady believes what little rights she has is 
far superior to the women that lived before the Chris- 
tian era. Samuel Johnson's researches into oriental re- 
ligions states that: 

"Germany and Rome believed woman was as fit to 
bear the rod of Empire as man. They established the 
open doctrine that, in domestic, social and civil life, the 
woman was the equal of the man. The common law 
of England put woman to death for crimes which a 
clergyman could commit without fear of punishment, and 
for which the severest punishment to a man was brand- 
ing." 

The history of different countries in ancient times 
places woman on perfectly equal terms with man, show- 
ing how the tradition of woman's fall did not come from 
the most enlightened nations, but from some semi-savage 
people we might call barbarians. The common law of 
Christian England lowered her standard under which 



110 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

cruelty has been enacted upon the stage of life that 
is a disgrace to any kingdom or republic. 

The editor of the "Banner of Light" writes that: — » 

" Woman, deprived of the right to her own offspring; 
woman, forbidden to hold or dispose of property; woman, 
made the physical slave of her husband, and a brutal 
husband's lusts; woman, with her wrists manacled, and 
following the back of her "lord's" chariot. It is not 
Christianity that has improved this harsh cruelty in any 
part; it is the advancement of the human mind; the 
progress of physical and social science; the culture of the 
intellect, and the recognition of an increasing necessity. 
And it is upon these higher, larger, and better views that 
her further emancipation is to proceed." 

What is Col. Ingersoll's opinion on such an import- 
ant theme as the woman question 1 He says: 

" Now, then, my friends, while men have been the 
slaves of men, women have been the slaves of slaves. 
They have not even had half of the rights that have 
been given to men. Oh, I do hate a man who thinks 
he is the head of the family. During all these ages, 
woman, I say, was a slave of man, and to a cer- 
tain extent, is to-day. How many men I have 
heard say that they were superior to any 
woman; they knew more than any woman; and when 
we talk about woman having voice in the Government, 
every body says, "No." I say she has the same right 
to take a part in the Government, if she desires, as I 
have." 

Those men who made such generous remarks about 
their capabilities as being superior to any woman 
(think of that assertion), if they knew how they had 
fallen in the great man's estimation, would blush with 
shame at their egotism. 

The Navajoes believe that God is a white woman that 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. Ill 

comes to them down the mountain side. The effect of 
this belief is, that woman is not annoyed by their natu- 
ral protectors endeavoring in every way that greed sug- 
gests to bankrupt her financially. Women among the 
INavajoes are entrusted with property as though she was 
possessed with honesty and common sense. Civilization 
rises or falls in proportion as woman is used with respect 
or disrespect. A religious belief can make her a slave 
or exalt her. If it has the word " obey" in the marriage 
ceremony it degrades her. That is a silent manner in 
which the pastor gives the whip to the man which says 
in plain words to chastise your wife when she is striking 
for justice ! This deleterious belief is so firmly rooted in 
the mind of some devotees, in a certain denomination, 
that the women expect to be literally whipped, occa- 
sionally, for it is God's will ! The priesthood are re- 
sponsible for this injustice. 

The effect of the unkind word flashes along the elec- 
tric wires of the nerves with tremendous power, creat- 
ing sad havoc with life's delicate machinery, which is 
instrumental in causing disease to take the place of 
health, which eventually overpowers the victim and 
woman sinks at the feet of her husband — who has mur- 
dered her by law; by the divinity of the whip and by 
the command of the God of the bible ! 

Many people have believed for a long time that grief 
has a deleterious effect upon the system, and, recently, 
this fact has been demonstrated by science. 

One of our leading dailies, printed in San Francisco, 
contains this news : 

" The Government is about to start a psycho-physical 
laboratory for research, to study poisons produced by 




112 THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 

emotions, by analyzing the perspiration of different 
people. Prof. Elmer Gates has been appointed to take 
charge of it. It deals with matters which hitherto have 
been deemed beyond reach of investigation. 

Among other things, it has discovered that bad and 
unpleasant feelings create harmful chemical products in 
the body which are physically injurious. Good, pleasant, 
benevolent and cheerful feelings create beneficial chemical 
products which are physically healthful. These products 
may be obtained by chemical analysis in the perspiration 
of the individual Professor Gates has discovered more 
than forty of the bad and as many of the good." 

Further on this interesting article, says: 

"Of all the chemical products of emotions, that of 
guilt is the worst. If a small quantity of the perspira- 
ation of a person suffering from feelings of that kind be 
placed in a glass tube and exposed to contact with selenic 
acid, it will turn pink. Accordingly, pink would appear 
to be the characteristic color of wrong-doing. How, ap- 
propriate, then, that the wicked person should blush of 
his evil deeds. It is a question whether he does so, very 
often, however." 

He writes that this science is not visionary but is 
based on facts. Again : 

"To sum up, it is found that for each bad emotion 
there is a corresponding chemical change in the tissues 
of the body which is life-depressing and poisonous. 
Contrari-wise, every good emotion makes a life-promot- 
ing change. Thus, it follows, that it pays to be good 
and to do good, for one's own sake. A noble and 
generous action blesses the doer as well as the bene- 
ficiary." 

It has been demonstrated that woman's pathway has 
been obstructed by the whip ; the block and the chains 
are symbols of slavery. She has found that man has no 
divine right to rule. 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 113 

Whenever a man wishes his liberty he never ceases 
trying until his object h obtained. If it is manly for a 
man to strike for his rights it is equally womanly for 
woman to cross the icy river into the territory of free- 
dom. If strength of mind is a noble quality in man, it 
certainly should grace a woman's intellect with the 
same degree of perfection. Strength of mind, combined 
with mercy, is a decided evolution from nonentity. 
The mussulman brought his wife with him to the World's 
Fair, that possessed the most strength, intellectually, 
hence, more companionable and brilliant. 

Strength of mind signifies power to carry out small 
and great enterprises successfully. 

Strength of mind creates stability in morals and 
maintains principles against persecution. 

Strength of mind instead of creating discord at home 
and in society, can, by its discriminating power and a 
high sense of justice, calm the disturbing elements far 
more than a weak and vacillating person who lacks wis- 
dom and executive abilities. 



A Man's Word for Woman, 

BY T. I,. HARRIS. 

By this we hold: No man is wholly great, 

Or wise, or just, or good, 
Who will not dare his all to reinstate 

Earth's trampled womanhood. 

No Seer sees truly, save as he discerns 
Her crowned, co-equal right; 

No lover loves divinely, till he burns 
Against hei foes to fight. 




1H THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

That Church is fallen, prone as Lucifer, 

God's bolts that hath not hurled 
Against the tyrants who have, outraged her, r 

The Priestess of the world. 

That Press, whose minions, slavish and unjust, 

Bid her in fetters die, 
Toils, in the base behalf of Pride and Lust, 

To consecrate a lie. 

" Once it was Christ, whom Judas with a kiss 

Betrayed," the Spirit saith: 
u But now, 'tis Woman's heart inspired by His, 

That man consigns to death." 

Each village hath its martyrs — every street 

Some house that is a hell ; 
Some woman's heart, celestial, pure and sweet 

Breaks with each passing bell. 

There are deep wrongs, too infinite for words, 

Man dare not have revealed ; 
And, in our midst, insane, barbaric hordes, 

Who make the Law their shield. 

Rise, then, oh Woman ! grasp the mighty pen, 

* By Inspirations driven ; 
Scatter the sophistries of cruel men, 
With voices fresh from Heaven. 

Han, smiting thee, moves on from war to war ; 

All rights with thine decease, 
Rise, 'throned with Christ, in his pure morning star. 

And charm the world to Peace, 



CHAPTER IL 

Maledictions. 
To the liberal who has outgrown aught that is savage 
in his nature, has arisen above the shadow of curses such 






THE NtfW GARDEN OF EDEN. 115 

as exists in the spirit of the Church at the present time, 
and considers them too low in the scale of civilization to 
utter or write about, only under the pressure of necessity. 

When maledictions have entirely vanished from the 
creeds, then will earth be clothed with flowers of af- 
fection and no clashing of steel be heard for the sake of 
opinion, to wither the beautiful emblems of peace. God 
cursed the devil, Adam, Eve and the ground. What ef- 
fect has cursing the ground left upon mankind'? This 
is one : A woman has lost an infant by death; could not 
bury her child in consecrated soil in a graveyard for the 
reason, the little innocent baby had not been baptized ! 
The consequence was, she left the church forever. 

Another effect is given in the San Diego, Cal. paper : 

How They Carried the Sacred Timbers. 

"The priests who built the old San Diego Mission in 
1769 and thereabouts, had to go a long distance 
inland for the roof timbers to support the heavy tiles 
made of adobe. From the old woman now living at 
Josepha Peters, near San Luis Rey, and whom we be- 
lieve to be at least 124 years of age, Mr. W. B. Couts 
learned that the timbers for the Mission came from 
Smith's Mountain, at least sixty miles inland from this 
city. The old lady says that after the timbers had all 
been nicely hewed and prepared, and blessed by the 
priests on the mountain, on a certain day a vast num- 
ber of the stoutest Indians were collected and stationed 
in relays of about a mile apart, all the way from the 
summit of the mountain to the foundations of the Mis- 
sion buildings in the valley near this city. 

At a given signal the timbers were blessed by the as- 
sembled priests on the mountain, and were then hoisted 
on the shoulders of the Indians, and were thus carried 
to the first relays and changed to their shoulders, and so 



116 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

oil, all the way to San Diego, without touching the 
ground; it was -considered a sacrilege to have one of 
them touch the ground from the time of starting 
till it arrived at its final destination in the Church.'' 

If the priests had blessed the whole earth, then their 
journey down the mountain would have been with less 
trouble. 

Think how mankind are every day obliged to walk 
upon ground that is held under ban. as a convict that 
has committed unpardonable sin ! The priesthood should 
be anxious to leave this unholy planet and devise some 
way to go to heaven as Elijah did, in line s r 

In a well-regulated, liberal family, a curse is n 
heard to darken the moral atmosphere with its blighting 
influence. To wish a liberal should reside in hades is 
one great source of crime. 

Does Divinity visit an altar when the atmosphere vi- 
brates with the following waves of inharmony in regard 
to human rights I They are : 

"A man who has been excommunicated by the Pope 
may be killed anywhere.'' 5 — Bussambaum 

"TTe are to take with unquestionable docility whatever 
instruction the Church gives us," — ["Catholic World.''' 

" Our Church is God's Church, and not accountable 
either to state or country." — Pope Pius IX. 

u The freedom of thinking is simply nonsense." — Mgr, 
Segub. 

"There is, ere long, to be a State religion in this 
country, and that State religion is to be Roman Catho- 
lic." — Father Hecker, 

Said Castelar, in his speech in Catholic Spain, before a 
Catholic Cortes in 1869 : 

" There is not a single progressive principle that has 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 117 

not been cursed by the Catholic Church. This is true of 
England and Germany, as well as of Catholic countries. ) 
The Church cursed the French Revolution, the Belgian 
Constitution, and the Italian Independence; neverthe- 
less, all these principles have been enrolled in spite of it. 
Not a Constitution has been born, not a single progress 
made, not a solitary reform effected, which has not been 
under the terrible anathemas of the Church." 

Here are a few of many instances where the Pope's 
blessings do not seem to bless : 

"This Pope gave his blessing to Maximilian, as 
Emperor of Mexico, and in a short time thereafter, he, 
the blessed one, was shot to death at Queretaro. 

" His Empress, Carlotta, was received with great con- 
sideration in Rome, where she was granted his bene- 
diction by the Pope in person, but before she left the 
Vatican she was hopelessly insane. 

" Isabella II of Spain, was showered with Papal bless- 
ings, and inside a month after the imposing ceremony, 
she was dethroned. For "a pious daughter of the 
Church" none received more frequent blessings than the 
Empress Eugenia, and it is claimed, with considerable 
force, that she, at the request of the Jesuits, fomented 
the war which left her without a throne and an exile in 
England. An English steamer, the Santa Maria, hav- 
ing on board Sisters of Charity, en route for Montevideo, 
which, in 1870, was blessed by the Holy Father, burnt 
to the water's edge, and all on board perished. All on 
account of the Pope's benedictions." 



CHAPTER IIL 

Sunday Law. 

Did Jesus, while on earth, circulate a petition to fasten 
ecclesiastical chains on the people 1 Was it his mission 



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THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 



to invent a pillory for the benefit of his followers who 
were inclined to have an individuality of their own 1 If 
such methods had actuated his motives the multitude 
never would follow him with love and gratitude. 

He boldly proclaimed that the " Sabbath was made 
for man and not man for the Sabbath." 

He saw, with regret, the cruel law of Moses being en- 
forced around him, and he undertook the herculean task 
to stay the mighty flood of destruction as it swept down 
through the ages giving moral disease to those hurling 
stones and death to the innocent — who had perpetrated 
no crime whatever. 

Knowing the status of the barbaric age in which he 
lived, saw with prophetic eye that his life would be sac- 
rificed, but rather than have future generations perse- 
cuted, pursued his own course for the benefit of the hu- 
man race. 

By his clashing with the laws of Moses he was at war 
with the fanatical priesthood. They delighted in the 
screeches of persecution that came from the victims of 
the Mosaic Inquisition. Jesus looked with indignation 
at the long-faced, hypocritcal priests, and knew how to 
attract the masses. The new dispensation of the law of 
love was greeted with enthusiasm. They listened with 
rapture when he taught them the golden rule in the 
great cathedral of nature. The songsters echoed the 
inspired words with harmonious strains in the dome of 
this sacred Church. The multitude loved him for his 
deeds of mercy which were the key to his heart. It 
would have been an easy task for him to be popular with 
the society in his time. If he had been a hypocrite his 



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119 



name would have faded in the midnight of selfishness and 
nonentity. 

After his death his followers met together by force of 
habit, no doubt, on the seventh day of the week, for 
communion of some kind and when they were numerous, 
sufficient for the pagans to persecute them, Constantine 
saw the contending forces in his dominion, and it was 
policy to give his royal sanction for the Christians to 
change their time of communion from the seventh to the 
first day of the week. Sunday, the great day for sun- 
worshippers, was the day for pagans and Christians to 
worship together in peace. It is easy to repeat at the 
present era that Sunday is God's holy day ! Jesus re- 
garded all days holy, but the famous murderer by the 
name of Constantine has completely eclipsed the brilliant 
career of the great reformer Jesus ! 

Jesus completely annihilated the austerity of the old 
Sabbath custom of cruelty. The question arises where 
and when did the influence of the bible return to give 
gloom and death to the people again % 

Did Constantine persecute any one for working on the 
pagan Sunday 1 It is not so recorded, but to his honor 
his decree was to work to save crops if necessary on 
Sunday. 

Coming down the stream of time to the reign of 
Queen Elizabeth, although the death penalty was insti- 
tuted for many innocent deeds, still no one was punished 
for working on Sunday. On the contrary, it was a law 
to save crops on Sunday if necessary, for God would be 
displeased if they were left to perish. Mark this, when a j 
sect claims to be exceedingly pure, distrust it. There 
was a sect that were called Nonconformists. 




120 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

The Nonconformists were called Puritans in derision, 
no doubt, at first. They were so pure they also perse- 
cuted the helpless at the first opportunity. 

The Puritans made Sunday hideous with their frowns. 
The law of Moses was revived and the American In- 
quisition was a disgrace to purity. When ministers de- 
sire the good old Puritan days to return it means perse- 
cution. 

The framers of the Constitution of the United States 
had witnessed the object lesson of the union" of Church 
and State to its fullest perfection, and, therefore, they 
saw the necessity of eliminating the Church from the 
State for the lofty purpose that persecution might cease 
under the glorious flag of equal rights for all to worship 
according to the dictates of conscience, so long as the 
rights of each are respected. 

Now we will see what Science has to reveal upon the 
Sabbath question : 

Science and Sunday. 

"The thing is done and science did it. The Sunday 
grievance in all its multifarious wickedness is settled at 
last. Those who insist upon our observing a command- 
ment that Jesus and Paul left out whenever they re- 
peated the Sinatic commandments, and they who be- 
lieve the Sabbath is not an observance required of 
Christians at all — can both be at rest, each contented, 
each performing all that is required of him. The man- 
ner in which this beautiful effort of science smoothes 
away existing difficulties, and enables the Sabbath Hon 
and the anti-Sabbath lamb to lie down in peace together, 
is thus explained. When circumnavigation of the globe 
became as common as life insurance agents, oaths 
of a ward politician, and declarations of honesty in a 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 121 

United States Senator's speech, it was found necessary 
to take some measures to calm the minds of sea-faring 
men, who on arriving home after having put a belt 
around this mundame sphere of ours, felt outraged be- 
cause their views of the day of the week on which they 
landed were not accepted by the denizens of terra firma. 
Conscientious Connecticut captains, who had voyaged 
from New York to San Francisco, and thence home 
again by the Cape of Good Hope, would sometimes 
reach home on what they knew by their reckonings was 
Saturday, and would find their friends in the very midst 
of Sunday; while wicked New York captains, who had 
circumnavigated the globe in the opposite direction, 
would land on what they believed Sunday morning, and 
would have their anticipations of a Sabbath-day spree 
dashed by being told that it was Saturday. So much 
discontent was caused by this state of things that mari- 
time nations finally fixed upon a meridian in the Pacific 
ocean as the precise point where vessels bound east or 
west should lose or gain a day. Since this plan was 
adopted the circumnavigating mariner returns home, not 
to unprofitable disputations, but at peace with the cal- 
ender and his fellow-men. There is no special reason 
why a spot in the Pacific should be taken for the pur- 
pose mentioned. A government may appoint any 
other meridian if it so choose." 

If we are to take the one running down the San Fran- 
cisco Bay, there would then be a difference of twenty-four 
hours between San Francisco and Oakland. Monday 
morning in San Francisco would be Tuesday morning in 
Oakland, and the people who started from Oakland at 1 2 
o'clock on Wednesday would arrive at the foot of Market 
street at 20 minutes past 12 on Tuesday, 23 hours and 
40 minutes before they started. No one can doubt the 
soundness of this reasoning without striking a blow at 
all faith in mathematics and astronomy, and we can only 



122 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

wonder that its application to the Sunday question was 
not long since proposed. 

A Now if it were thus practicable for San Franciscans 
to gain an entire day by crossing the bay, what 
right would Church people have to find fault with Sun- 
day excursions to Oakland 1 We could leave here on 
Sunday and have a good time in Oakland, or that vicin- 
ity, without shocking religious nerves by Sabbath-break- 
ing. We could have Monday "off" in Oakland and get 
back here Sunday night without losin^at day, and at the 
same time be at peace with the law and the fourth com- 
mandment. If you don't understand this thing as thor- 
oughly as you feel that you should on religious principles, 
read Jules Verne in " Round the World in 80 Days." 
J. M. Peebles writes as follows : 

"The Lost Day. 

" Since sailing upon the Pacific westward, the question 
has been sprung, * Where does day begin V The gene- 
ral answer was, 'Here — there — or at that place where 
the sunbeams first strike the earth during the tw^enty- 
four hours.' The geographical and nautical answer is, 
'Day begins at the degree of longitude 180 ea c .t or west'. 
Every schoolboy knows that traveling round the world 
from east to west a day is literally lost, and for the rea- 
son that there is a difference of one hour for every fif- 
teen degrees of longtitude in each day. Accordingly, 
journeying westward, a certain length of time is added 
to each day ; and making the world's circuit — as many 
are doing at present — would amount to an entire day. 
This is a puzzler to strict observers of 'Sabbath-days.' 
When crossing the meridian 180, before reaching Auck- 
land, New Zealand, our captain dropped from his 
r eckonings the day we had lost^-and Sunday was this 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 123 

very lost day ! How queer ! going to bed Saturday 
night, and getting up on Monday morning ! 

"Round the world tourists crossing the Pacific en 
route for Japan, on arriving at the 180 degree of longi- 
tude, drop a day from their calender. The returning 
ship adds a day to its reckoning. It happened to the 
Rev. Dr. Field crossing this meridian on the 18th of 
June, which fell on Sunday, to enjoy two successive 
Sundays in mid-ocean, one of which was the Sunday of 
Asia, the other that of America and Europe. The 
reverend chronicler sadly records the fact that many of 
his fellow voyagers, in their perplexity as to which day 
ought to be observed, failed to keep either day, and so, 
instead of gaining two Sundays, lost the one which was 
theirs by right." 

The learned Brahmin dashed the microscope upon the 
floor, for he did not wish his followers' faith shaken in 
transmigration of souls. If it was honorable for Chris- 
tians to deceive in regard to longitude and time, then it 
is honorable for the Brahmin to teach the transmigration 
of souls in his religion. 

Astrology and the Hebrews. 

" It is well known to scholars who have investigated 
the subject, that the week of seven days had its origin 
in astrology, which was practiced in the east at a very 
early date. The division of time into periods of seven 
days can be traced to Egypt, but it probably came from 
Chaldea where astrology seems to have originated. 

The seven days of the week bear the names of the 
seven planets, counting the sun and moon, or of the 
deities supposed to preside over them, over which the 
planets were supposed to bear rule, in the following 
order : Sunday, the sun ; Monday, the moon ; Tuesday, 
Mars ; Wednesday, Mercury ; Thursday, Jupiter ; Friday, 
Venus; Saturday, Saturn. 




124 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

The singular order observed in the arrangement of the 
planets is also accounted for by the astrological system of 
the ancients. The Egyptian astrologers termed Saturn the 
"greater infortune," and as he ruled Saturday it was 
popularly considered unpropitious to commence any 
undertaking on that day, and from this probably origin- 
ated the custom of resting on the seventh day. 

The names of the days of the week in the Latin, in 
French, and most of the Oriental languages, were 
directly derived from the ruling planets, and in the 
order given above. An English author who has been in- 
v ;stigating this subject, shows that a similar connection 
b ;tween the week and the planets exists in the Hebrew, 
which is not surprising as the Hebrews derived many 
of their customs from the ancient Egyptians." — [Ex. 

Science is a great iconoclast and it is only a question 
of time when Sunday will cease to be regarded as God's 
holy day. 

The clergy of Minneapolis have made themselves con- 
spicuous in their ignorance by pledging themselves to 
withhold all patronage from the Sunday newspaper, be- 
lieving that the Sunday newspaper is the head and front 
of all offending. 

It is that kind of fanatics that have persecuted many 
in the United States, liberals and Seventh Day Adven- 
tists who were working on Sunday and doing nobody 
any harm. In Dec. 30th, 1889, Jews in Lowell, Mass., 
were arrested for dancing, and fined for the reason the 
music disturbed the puritans on the Lord's Holy Day. 
The most agitation in regard to persecution of persons 
for working on Sunday has been in Kanas and Ten- 
nessee. Here is a newspaper account of the affair : 

"Those who are demanding a Sunday law find they 
have no scripture to present for Sunday keeping, so they 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 125 

want to bolster up their cause with a civil enactment. 
Adventists are now in jail in both Kansas and Tennessee 
for working on Sunday, and they are not * driven to it 
by the greed of corporations' either. One man is lying 
in jail with felons for gathering over ripe fruit from his 
own orchard on Sunday. Collections were taken up 
in our churches last week for the families of brethren 
who are in Tennessee jails, and in consequence their fami- 
lies are suffering. I think we need a law to protect 
Adventists from the persecution of their neighbors quite 
as much as a Sunday law to protect people from the 
rapacity of corporations." 

The above facts occurred in 1886. 

The United States Supreme Court had not passed 
upon the constitutionality of the Sunday law and it was 
to decide on this question in the case of Mr. King, but 
ere the time arrived Mr. King died, no doubt, prema- 
turely by the cruelty of the American Christian In- 
quisition. Mr. King was a Seventh Day Adventist; 
was indicted for cultivating his corn on Sunday on his 
own premises. He was arraigned before a justice of the 
peace and fined. Afterwards he was indicted by the 
Grand Jury for the same offense and was convicted and 
fined $75. His case was appealed to the Supreme 
Court, and his conviction was there affirmed. There 
were many having great interest in this case when it 
was decided to take it to the United States Supreme 
Court, but his death was a shock to the thousands who 
knew him to be another martyr that has fallen a victim 
in the flames of superstition. 

Tennesse is religious. It has quite a perfect system 
of the union of Church and State. The whipping post 
is revived and the criminals are whipped in true puri- 



126 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

tanic style. It is reported that women in the prisons 
are stripped to the waist and whipped on the bare back. 

Yes, Tennessee is grandly pious.. It must have men 
in office that believe in future rewards and punishments. 

California has no Sunday law. Bigotry has tried 
to fasten such a law upon the State, but the State to the 
present time has too much humanity to allow its sub- 
jects to wear the chains of religious slavery. California 
owes its freedom on Sunday greatly to two liberals 
who have worked diligently to establish liberal ideas 
all along the Pacific Coast. One is Dr. J. L. York, 
who was a preacher for twenty years and by the 
light of reason bade adieu to superstition and be- 
came an Ingersoll of the Coast, in lecturing on reform 
subjects. At one time he was Senator in the legislature 
in Sacramento. 

The other, Samuel P. Putnam, a liberal lecturer, and 
whenever* he is needed to talk to a committee at the 
Capitol, he is there to advocate the cause of humanity 
by his logic and his arguments which are effective. 

Would that men of their ability could help in all the 
States to establish what our forefathers intended, a home 
of liberty for all. 

Only three States in all this broad domain that has no 
Sunday Law. These are California, Idaho and Wyoming. 

Liberal lecturers do not work in the field of Reform 
for self-glory or to earn merely a living. They see 
danger all along the horizon < f our land and they seek 
to avoid the possibility of a fearful crisis that may ensue 
if people are not firm in eternal vigilance which seems 
to be the price of liberty so long as superstition is as pow- 
erful as at present. Behold the danger in the contest 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 



127 



in 1888 when large delegations from numerous and pow- 
erful Christian organizations sought to overwhelm the 
United States Congress with their speeches and petitions 
that represented 14,000,000 Christians! 

The object of the celebrated Blair bill, was to secure 
the Lord's day as a day of rest and to promote its ob- 
servance as a day of public worship ! Cardinal Gibbon's 
letter added weight, also, to the respectability of the in- 
fluence of the august assembly. 

Among those who favored toleration was the great Sen- 
ator from New Hampshire who failed in his most Chris- 
tian object. Perhaps the words of the opponents to his 
bill reverberated through the halls with a pathos that 
could not be resisted when they repeated that " Congress 
shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion 
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." 

Much misery might have been avoided had there been 
in the Constitution a clause to the same effect that no 
State could interfere with the rights of conscience in 
respect to religion or prohibit the free exercise thereof. 
It has been a blot upon our nation that is supposed to 
give liberty to all, that so many people have been fined, 
and inmates of the penitentiaries along with the lowest 
criminals in those institutions. If our nation continues 
to be apathetic, at no distant time all States will be as 
religious as Delaware and Tennessee. 

Many well-meaning Christians may be likened to dead 
fish that float along with the popular current, and it is 
too much exercise for the mind to think for themselves 
to swim with the live fish up the stream of time. They 
are not aware the great benefit of the protection of our 



128 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Constitution, for it answers as a check to a considerable 
degree to the encroachments of the demands of fanatics. 
To sign a petition that lessens liberty, signs their own 
death warrant*- Catholicism would assert its claims and 
either Protestantism or Catholicism would have to yield. 
The prospect is not brilliant, to institute laws for the 
use of racks, wheels, boot, thumb-screws, burning at the 
stake, etc., etc., to reappear to decorate our statute 
books with death warrants of the brightest intellects of 
our land. 

Women are taking an active part in reforming the 
Constitution, and the next item will be the ideas of a 
large class that have outgrown the narrow ideas that 
Bigotry always gives 

The Rights of Women. 

The following is an excerpt from a speech delivered 
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, President of the National 
American Woman Suffrage Association, in Washington 
City on the 18th of last February: 

" We might get some agitation by trying a new field for 
our labors, demanding equality for woman in the Church. 
As women are the chief supporters of the Church, get 
up all the fairs and donation parties, do all the begging 
to build Churches, support missionaries and theological 
seminaries, many of them making large bequests to these 
various institutions, one would think the time had fully 
come for woman to demand of the same equal recog- 
nition she demands of the State. She should assume 
her right and duty to take part in the revision of 
bibles, prayerbooks and creeds ; to vote on ail questions 
of business, and to fill the offices of deacon, elder, Sun- 
day school superintendent, pastor and bishop, and have 
the right to sit and vote as delegate in all ecclesiastical 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 129 

conventions, synods and assemblies, that thus our reli- 
gion may no longer reflect only the masculine element 
in humanity, and that woman — the mother of the race — 
may be honored as she must be before we can have a 
happy home, a rational religion and an enduring 
government. 

" If educated women had exerted any enlightened in- 
fluence on the religious thought of the world, leading 
men in the nineteenth century would not stand debat- 
ing the damnation of infants at this hour, harrowing 
up the souls of pale mothers, sorrowing over the loss 
of their first born. Men not endowed with the maternal 
instinct may pass unscathed through the ordeal of such 
a discussion, but alas, for the young mothers all over 
this land who read these atrocious sentiments in cold 
type, as tluy decorate with flowers the little graves of 
their loved ones ! Our insane asylums are full of sus- 
ceptible, imaginative young women, whose reason has 
been dethroned by these religious superstitions. Surely 
the mother-love, once set free from old creeds and dog- 
mas, must bring to humanity new light and hope, both 
for this world and the world to come. 

" As women are taking an active part in pressing on 
the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian 
measures, such as more rigid Sunday laws, to stop 
travel and the distribution of the mail on that day, and 
to introduce the name of God into the constitution — as 
this action on the part of sorne^ woman is used as an 
argument for the disfranchisement of all, I hope this 
convention will declare that the Woman's Suffrage As- 
sociation is opposed to all union of Church and State, 
and pledges, itself as far as possible, to maintain the 
secular nature of our government. As Sunday is the 
only day the laboring men can escape from the cities, to 
stop the street cars, omnibuses and railroads would, in- 
deed, be a lamentable exercise of arbitrary authority. 
No, nr, the duty of the State is to protect those who do 
the work of the world in the largest liberty, and instead 



130 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

of shutting them up in their gloomy tenement houses 
on Sunday, we should open wide the parks, horticultural 
gardens, the museums, the libraries, the galleries of art, 
and the music halls where they can listen to the divine 
melodies of the great masters. All these are questions 
of legislation, and what influence women will exert as 
voters is already being canvassed ; hence the importance 
of this association expressing its opinions on all questions 
on which woman's social, civil, religious and political 
rights are involved. 

" Consider the thousands of women with babies in 
their arms, year after year, who have no change to the 
dull routine of their lives, except on Sunday w T hen their 
husbands can go with them on some little excursion by 
land or sea, suddenly compelled to stay at home by the 
passage of a rigid Sunday law, secured by the votes of 
those who can drive about at pleasure in their own 
carriages, and go wherever they may desire." 

The Father Jaspers. 

" The c Pioneer Press' has been fairly deluged with com- 
munications in answer to the recent concerted attacks 
made by Minneapolis clergymen on the Sunday news- 
papers. Most of these are of a highly satirical character, 
and hardly do justice to the motives of the gentlemen of 
the cloth. We will not have the sincerity of our clerical 
censors impeached or their ancient and time-honored no- 
tions treated with disrespectful levity. The man, who, in 
this day and generation, thinks it sinful to read a Sun- 
day newspaper is an interesting relic of an order of 
things which is as distinctly obsolete in the system of 
modern thought and as distinctly incompatible with the 
exigencies of modern social life as the man who still be- 
lieves in witchcraft or in the divine right of kings. He 
would, if he could, make Sunday so uncomfortable for 
Christians that before long there would be very few 
Christians left to keep him company in his gloomy iso- 
lation from the active and cheerful. world, which needs 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 131 

and will have a cheerful and comfortable Sunday. The 
Sunday newspaper is the natural and inevitable out- 
growth of modern social life. It came as the Sunday 
street car has come — in response to an imperative public 
need; and it has come to stay. The question of its 
legitimacy or of its necessity is as absolutely settled for 
all time to come as the question of the revolution of the 
earth on its axis. And the Father Jaspers who keep on 
proclaiming from their pulpits with the ancient authori- 
ties of the church that 'the sun do move' command 
about as much deference from the great body of public 
opinion as their picturesque Virginia prototype." 

The following episode is an instance of persecution in 
the good old days of Puritanism : 

"Capt. St. Leo, commander of a warship then in 
Boston Harbor, being apprehended for walking on the 
Lord's Day, was sentenced by a justice of the peace to 
pay a fine, and on refusing to pay had to sit in the 
stocks an hour during the day. While in the stocks the 
good people supplied him with much good advice as to 
his future conduct on the Sabbath day. After his re- 
lease, the captain expressed great regret for his past 
transgressions, and declared to them that he was in 
future resolved to lead a new life. The saints of Bos- 
ton were, of course, delighted at his sudden reformation, 
and in order that the captain might still further profit 
by their good counsel, many of them invited him to 
dinner. The captain proved to be a most zealous con- 
vert. He attended prayer-meeting and showed every 
outward sign of grace. At length he was obliged to 
put to sea, and before the day of departure invited 
many of the spiritual advisers to dinner aboard the 
vessel, which lay ready in Nantasket Roads. A capital 
dinner was provided, at which many bottles were 
drained to the captain's health. When the after-dinner 
harmony was at its height a body of sailors burst into 
the cabin and seized the guests. They were dragged on 



132 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

deck, tied to a grating, and the boatswain and his assist- 
ants administered the law of Moses in a most energetic 
manner, the captain, meantime, assuring them that the 
mortification of the flesh tended to the saving of the 
soul, were bundled into their boat and the captain im- 
mediately set sail." 

The Whipping post was once established as a law in 
Nevada. The citizens of the Silver State pulled them 
up, much to their honor, as loving humanity more, and 
superstition less, than in the State of Delaware. 

The screeches of the victims of brutality is not known 
to echo among the silver crested mountains of this pro- 
gressive State. Nevada has its faults, but it has not de- 
generated to the "Dark Ages," as yet, and it is to be 
hoped the liberty-loving people will, at no distant day, 
sweep away every unjust law from the statute books, 
and give more extended rights to every citizen, whether 
man or woman. 

The Church is empowered with no divine right to dic- 
tate about any day of the week to be set apart for re- 
ligious purposes and compel people to go to Church by 
blockading the right of way to walk or ride in the sun- 
shine of happiness and freedom. 

The "Century" says: 

" America has three bulwarks of liberty — a free ballot, 
a free school, and a free Sunday—and neither domestic 
treachery nor foreign impudence should be permitted to 
break them down." 



CHAPTER IV. 

Tlie Pedigree of Christianity. 
Writing of the amalgamation of Christianity and Pa- 
ganism, Draper has many comparisons, but will give a 
few which are as follows : 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 133 

"Olympus was restored, but the divinities passed 
under other names. The more powerful provinces in- 
sisted on the adoption of their time-honored conceptions. 
Views of the trinity, in accordance with Egyptian tra- 
dition-, were established. 

" Th 3 well-known effigy of the goddess Isis, with the in- 
fant llorus in her arms, has descended to our days in 
the beautiful, artistic creations of the Madonna and 
child. 

" When it was announced to the Ephesians that the 
Council of that place, headed by Cyril, had decreed that 
the Virgin should be called the^Mother of Cod, with 
tears of joy they embraced the knees of their bishop; it 
was the old instinct peeping out; their ancestors would 
have done the same for Diana. Let us pause here, a 
moment, and see, in anticipation, to what a depth of in- 
tellectual degradation this policy of paganization eventu- 
ally led. Heathen rites were adopted, a pompous and 
splendid ritual, gorgeous robes, mitres, tiaras, wax-tapers, 
processional services, lustrations, gold and silver vases, 
were introduced. The Roman lituus, the chief ensign 
of the augurs, became the crozier. 

"Fasting became the grand means of repelling the 
devil and appeasing God ; celibacy the greatest oc the 
virtues. The virtues of consecrated water were upheld ; 
images and relics were introduced into the Churches, and 
worshiped after the fashion of the heathen gods. It was 
given out that prodigies and miracles were to be seen in 
certain places, as in heathen times. There was a multi- 
plication of temples, altars and penitential garments. 
The worship of images, of fragments of the cross, or 
bones, nails, and other relics ; a true fetich worship, was 
cultivated. 

" Two arguments were relied on for the authenticity 
of those objects — the authority of the Church, and the 
working of niiracl* s. Even the worn-out clothing of the 
saints, and the ear oh of their graves were venerated. 
From Palestine were brought what were alarmed to be 



134 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

the skeletons of St. Mark and St. James, and other an- 
cient worthies. Then came the mystery of transub- 
stantiation or the conversion of bread and wine by the 
priest into the flesh and blood of Christ. 

"As centuries passed, the paganism became more 
complete. Festivals sacred to the memory of the lance 
with which the Saviour's side was pierced, the nails that 
fastened him to the cross, and the crown of thorns, were 
instituted. Though there were several abbeys that 
possessed this last peerless relic, no one dared to say that 
it was impossible they c^uld all be authentic. " 

Bishop Newton on the paganism of Christianity 
writes : 

"The burning of incense or perfumes on several altars 
at one and the same time, the sprinkling of holy water, 
or a mixture of salt and water, at going into and com- 
ing out of places of public worship; the lighting up 
of a great number of lamps and wax candles in broad 
daylight before altars and statues; the hanging up of 
votive offerings and rich presents as attestations of so 
many miraculous cures and deliverances from diseases 
and dangers ; the canonization or deification of deceased 
worthies ; the consecrating and bowing down to images ; 
the carrying of images and relics in pompous procession, 
with numerous lights, and with music and singing ; flag- 
ellations at solemn seasons under notion of penance ; the 
shaving of priests, or the tonsure, as it is called, on the 
crown of the heads — all these and many more rites and 
ceremonies are equally parts of pagan and popish wor- 
ship." 

We will pass from the uniformity of heathen and 
Christian Rome and trace some beliefs to Egypt as 
adopted by the Jews: 

D. M. Bennett writes: 

" A hereditary priesthood with divine rights ; the 
phrase, 'I am that I am'; white linen robes of the 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 135 

priests ; the rich temple and holy of holies ; the cheru- 
bim with extended wings ; urim and thummim as sym- 
bolical jewels ; branched candlesticks \ animal sacrifice 
to deity ; the rule of the priesthood ; a veritable theoc- 
racy ; prayer to affect deity ; the monotheistic idea." 

What Christianity Borrowed from Egypt. 

" Doctrine of the trinity ; belief in a being half man 
and half god ; the cross as a religious symbol ; the be- 
lief of an evil being antagonistic to God ; belief in a 
local heaven and hell; the Christmas festival; the 
Candlemas festival ; a keeper of the keys of heaven ; 
the practice of holy pilgrimages ; linen surplices worn by 
priests ; shaving the heads of priests ; the priesthood 
claiming divine knowledge; the resurrection of the 
body." 

In the words of D. B. Bennett we have : 

" Father Hue, when he went to Asia, as a missionary, 
declared that the devil had preceded him and established 
the Christian religion. Buddhism had a priority of six 
centuries over Christianity, so it will not be difficult to 
say which is the original." 

Here are a few, out of many, similarities that the 
same writer gives about the lives of Jesus and Buddha : 

"Both are claimed to have a virgin mother ; both had 
a band of disciples ; both taught orally and their teach- 
ings were written by others ; both lived a life of celib- 
acy ; both systems have monasteries ; both have images 
of Virgin and child; both believe in a devil and evil 
spirits ; both believe in casting out devils ; both believe 
in holy water ; both use censor with tire chains ; both 
have the doctrine of reincarnation; both teach miracles; 
both insist that their own system is the most divine and 
perfect. Buddha taught the commandments as follows : 

" Thou shalt not kill ; thou shalt not steal ; thou shalt 
not commit adultery : thou shalt not sp< ale untruth ; 
thou shalt not take any intoxicating drink ; thou shalt 



136 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

avoid all anger, hatred and bitter language; thou 
shalt not indulge in idle and vain talk ; thou shalt 
not covet thy neighbor's goods ; thou shalt not harbor 
envy, nor malice, nor the desire of thy neighbor's death 
or misfortune; thou shalt not follow the doctrines of 
false gods." 

In the time of ancient paganism the most important 
individual in a community was, generally, believed to 
have a god for a father — Christna had a virgin mother ; 
Prometheus was half man and half god ; Esculapius had 
the same divine origin. Alexander the Great, aspired to 
this line of destruction to be on equal terms with the 
gods. About five hundred years B. C, there was estab- 
lished a law to stop so divine a nuisance ! At this pro- 
gressive era no one with the least intelligence would be- 
lieve a Messiah that pretended to be a descendant from 
the gods. 

Here is a clipping from the Boston " Investigator," 
which is further proof where Christianity derived its 
source in respect to its superstitions : 

Christmas. 

" The Christian Church claims that Jesus was born on 
December 25th. As it does not know on wliat day he 
was born, why was this day chosen for his birth-day 1 
Let us see. We find that nearly all the ancient nations 
on the twenty-fifth of December celebrated the birth of 
a god. In India the custom of observing Christmas is 
of great antiquity. The people cover their houses with 
leaves and flowers, and distribute gifts among their 
friends. 

In China, the time of the winter solstice, the last 
week of December is celebrated with religious solemnities 
ani business of all kinds is stopped. The same may be 
said of Persia and Egypt. Buddha is said to have been 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 137 

born on December 25th, so was the Persian Savior 
Mithras. 

The 25th of December was also the birth-day of the 
Egyptian gods. Hercules, a Greek deity, was born on 
this same day. Bacchus and Adonis, two more Grecian 
gods, first saw the light of day on Christmas morn. 
The Romans also regarded the 25th of December as a 
holy time, and celebrated the birth of Sol on this day. 

Mr. Gibbon, in his " Decline and Fall of the Roman 
Empire," says : " The Roman Christians, ignorant of 
the real date o£ his (Christ's) birth, fixed the solemn 
festival to the 25th of December, the Brumalia, or Winter 
Solstice, when the Pagans annually celebrated the birth 
of SoL" 

We see that Christmas, then, is an ancient and a 
heathen celebration, and that the Christians adopted 
the day as the birthday of their god, in order, as they 
said, "to draw the heathens to the religion of Christ." 

The real significance of Christmas is the birth of the 
sun, the increase of light, the coming of a new year ; 
and this fact was hailed with gladness, and celebrated 
with games and religious rites, centuries before the birth 
of Christianity. 

Christmas is one of many Pagan festivals to which 
Christianity adjusted its faith. 

There is a wider and deeper meaning to the feelings 
which are manifested upon this day than any religion 
can express. Thousands will strive to make human hearts 
glad who care nothing for the person called Christ. The 
desire to give happiness to others, that reigns trium- 
phant at this time, does not have birth in any religious 
emotion. It is impossible to associate even a thought of 
Christ with the Christmas tide of joy. Christmas has 
burst its Pagan and Christian importance, and has be- 
come the great festival of the human heart. Its char- 
acter is less and less religious every year and more and 
more social. It is a day when every one can rejoice to 
see the darkness leaving, the light coming.' ' 



138 the new garden op eden. 

Christmas and the Jews. 

[From the New York Journal.] 
I According to Rabbi Sonneschein of St. Louis, the 
| American Jew can keep Christmas without in the least 
■violating his religious convictions. The Rabbi says that 
December 25th, was celebrated by the pagan world as 
the time when the longest night gives way to the length- 
ening of the day and that the early Christian Church, 
which had originally celebrated the natal day of its 
founder in the spring, accepted at the end of the fifth 
century the pagan festival, transferring its celebration 
of Christ's birth to December. Moreover, the Macca- 
bean priests instituted a festival on the 25 th, of Kisler, 
the corresponding Jewish month, to take the place of 
this pagan feast, when they had by defeating the Syrian 
King driven out Greek idolatry. 

Roman Catholic Purgatory. 

[From the Boston Investigator.] 

Mr. Editor: It seems that theoretical purgatory 
began to be spoken of from the Pagans and Jews in the 
6th century, but did not obtain a fixed residence till in 
the Council of Florence it became an integral part of 
infallibility, A. D. 1430. Now to more fully understand 
this "purgatory" business, I thought it most proper to 
have it described by one who has been through the 
Roman Catholic Mill, and knows all about it. Anthony 
Gavin, an ex-priest of Saragossa, in Spain, says: 

" I cannot give a real account of purgatory, but I 
will tell all I know of the practices and doctrines of the 
Romish priests and friars in relation to that imaginary 
place, which indeed must be of vast extent and almost 
infinite capacity, if, as the priests give out, there are as 
many apartments in it as conditions and ranks of people 
in the world among Roman Catholics. 

" The in tenseness of the fire in purgatory is calculated 
by them, which they assert is eight degrees, and that of 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 139 

hell only four degrees. But there is a great difference 
between these two fires, in this, viz.: that of purgatory, 
(though more intense, active, consuming, and devour- 
ing,) is but a time, of which the souls may be freed by 
the suffrages of the masses ; but that of hell is forever. 
In both places, they say, the souls are tormented and 
deprived of the glorious sight of God ; but the souls in 
purgatory (though they endure a great deal more than 
those in hell) have certain hopes of seeing God some- 
time or other, and that hope is enough to make them to 
be called the blessed souls. 

" Pope Adrian the Third, confessed that there was no 
mention of purgatory in Scripture, or in the writings of 
the holy fathers ; but notwithstanding this, the ' Coun- 
cil of Trent' has settled the doctrine of purgatory with- 
out alleging any one passage of Scripture, and gave so 
much liberty to priests and friars by it, that they build 
in that fiery palace, apartments for kings, princes, noble- 
men, grandees, merchants and tradesmen, for ladies of 
quality, and for gentlewomen and tradesmen's wives, 
and for poor, common people. 

11 These are the eight apartments which answer to the 
eight degrees of intensus ignis, i. e., intense fire ; and 
they make the people believe that the poor people only 
endure the least degree ; the second being greater, is for 
gentlewomen and tradesmen's wives, and so on to the 
eighth degree, which being the greatest of all is reserved 
for kings. By this wicked doctrine they get gradually 
masses from all sorts of people, in proportion to their 
greatness. But as the poor cannot give so many masses 
as the great, the lowest chamber of purgatory is always 
crowded with the reduced souls of those unfortunately 
fortunate people, for they say to them that the provi- 
dence of God has ordered everything to the ease of his 
creatures, and that foreseeing that the poor people could 
not afford the same number of masses that the rich 
could, his infinite goodness had placed them in a place 
of less suffering in purgatory. 



140 THE NEW GABDEN OP EDEN. 

" But it is a remarkable thing that many poor, silly 
tradesmen's wives, desirous of honor in the next world, 
ask the friars whether the souls of their fathers, 
mothers, or sisters, can be removed from the second 
apartment (reckoning from the lowest) to the third? 
thinking by it, that although the third degree of fire is 
greater than the second, yet the soul would be better 
pleased in the company of ladies of quality; but the 
worst is, that the friar makes such women believe that 
he may do it very easily if they give the same price for a 
mass the ladies of quality give. I knew a shoemaker's 
wife, very ignorant, proud, and full of punctilios of 
honor, who went to a Franciscan friar, and told him 
that she desired to know whether her own father's soul 
was in purgatory or not, and in what apartment. The 
friar asked her how many masses she could spare for it 1 
She answered two; and the friar answered, 'Your 
father's soul is among the beggars.' Upon hearing this, 
the poor woman began to cry, and desired the friar to 
put him, if possible, in the fourth apartment, and she 
would pay him for it ; and the quantum being settled, 
the friar promised to place him there the next day. So 
the poor woman ever since gives out that her father was 
a rich merchant, for it was revealed to her that his soul 
is among the merchants in purgatory ! 

"Now what can we say but the Pope is the chief 
Governor of that place, and priests and friars the quar- 
termasters that billet the souls according to their own 
fancies, and have the power, and give for money, the 
King's apartments to the soul of a shoemaker, and that 
of a lady of quality to her washer- woman ! 

" But mind, reader, how chaste the friars are in pro- 
curing a separate place for ladies in purgatory; they 
su^t this doctrine to the temper of a people whom they 
believe to be extremely jealous, and really not without 
ground of them, and so no soul of a woman can be placed 
among men. Many serious people are well pleased with 
this Christian caution; but those that are given to 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 141 

pleasure do not like it at all, and I knew a pleasant 
young collegian who went to a friar and said to him — 
1 Father, I own that I love the fair sex, and believe my 
soul will always retain that inclination. ' 

" ' I am told that no man's soul can be in company 
with ladies, and it is a dismal thing for me to think that 
I must go there, (but as for hell I am in no danger 
of it, thanks to the Pope,) where I never shall see any 
more women, which will prove the greatest of torments to 
my soul ; so I have resolved to agree with your Rever- 
ence beforehand upon this point: I have a bill of ten 
pistoles upon Peter la Vinna Banquer, and if you can 
assure me, either to send me straight to heaven when I 
die, or to the ladies' apartment in purgatory, you shall 
have the bill ; and if you cannot, I must submit to the 
will of God like a good Christian.' 

" The friar seeing the bill, which he supposed was 
ready money, told him that he could do either of the 
two, and that he himself might choose which of the two 
places he pleased. 'But Father/ said the collegian, 
1 the case is, that I love Donna Teresa Spinola, but she 
does not love me, and I do not believe that I can expect 
any favor from her in this world, so I would know 
whether she is to go before me to purgatory or not.' 
'Oh! that is very certain/ said the friar. 'I choose, 
then/ said the collegian, 'the ladies' apartment, and 
here is the bill/ &c. 

" Now, having given a description of the workings of 
the Roman Catholic purgatory, and the doings of mis- 
guided priest and friar scamps, backed up by Popes and 
Councils, I will conclude by saying: There is not one 
text of Scripture to be found in the bible that teaches 
the Romish dogma of purgatory ! So you see their 
whole system is a scheme to rob the ignorant of their 
money, to aggrandize Popes and priests 1 Let the poor 
dupes read the bible for themselves, an J they can soon 
find out the fraud of Popery. Yours, 

Boston, Oct. 13, 1884. A. Lutherite. 



1*2 the new garden of eden. 

The Buddhist Hell. 

Frederic J. Masters, D. D., in the " Calif ornian," 
March, 1893, writes that: 

" Buddhism was introduced into China by Indian 
missionaries in the first century of the Christian era." 

The few extracts declare that : 

" Buddhism taught six states of being : gods, men, 
demons, animals, hungry ghosts and torment in helL 
Life is represented as a great wheel, with six spokes, 
ever turning — an incessant change from one state of 
being into another — and to be lifted off this transmi- 
gration treadmill into the Nirvana of non-being is the 
strange prospect held out by Gautama Buddha. Until 
that goal is reached there is no rest, but an incessant ebb 
and flow of the tides of life, birth and rebirth into states 
determined by a man's store of accumulated merit or de- 
merit, either in ascending shapes from man up to 
Buddhahood, or in descending forms of life from man 
down to worms and slugs. 

" Whatever may have been the teachings of the earlier 
Buddhists on the question of a future life, the popular 
conception of future retribution entertained by the Chi- 
nese, to-day, bears many points of resemblance to that 
of the Grecian and Roman classics. 

" Dante writes over the gates of Hades, ' Abandon hope 
all ye who enter here/ The Buddhist system is purga- 
torial and remedial, possessing ten kingdoms, each con- 
taining sixteen sub-hells. In the tenth kingdom, in 
this region, all torment is brought to an end. The pun- 
ishments endured in successive stages of purgatory are 
not eternal but temporary and remedial ; designed only 
to wash out all those stains of long-contracted tilth that 
remain in the soul, to cure it of base animal cravings 
and love of life, so that at last ; after long kalpas of 
time, Buddha's rest of peace is reached 

"In this tenth region is found the mill of transmi- 



TIIE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 143 

gration, the wheel of change that turns incessantly ; and 
ever against the five quagmires of the world are the 
bridges of fate, built of gold, silver, jade and wood, 
across which the souls emancipated from purgatory pass 
to be reborn into the world whether as man, beast, bird, 
reptile, fish or insect. Upon those who spent their days 
on earth reading the Sutras, these hells have no power ; 
their names are in the * Book of Life' ; a higher sphere on 
earth awaits them, and their detention in purgatory is 
very brief. Before their rebirth it is said, these souls 
are taken by the angel Mang to the Kii Mong pagoda, 
and made to drink of the broth of oblivion. But what- 
ever joys await the soul in its loftier transportations, 
this life is not its goal. Buddhism taught that human 
life is, at its best, a delusion, a curse and a bitterness. 
Till disenchantment came and a desire was quenched, 
there was no hope of salvation. Life's chains and tram- 
mels must one by one be broken off. The soul must be 
weaned from ephemeral joys and evanescent pleasures. 
And to escape this dizzy whirl of life's ever changing 
wheel, to find release from purgatorial hells, and from 
the dreary monotony of successive births and deaths, 
Buddhism showed but one way. It was to renounce the 
world, take refuge in ' the three precious ones' — Buddha, 
the Law and the Church, to spend one's life in wrapt 
meditation and dreary abstraction. So shall blessed 
tranquility come, the world and all unreal things shall 
fade away and then comes the end. Just as * the dew- 
drop slips into the shining sea,' so life and being, person- 
ality and consciousness shall be absorbed in Buddha and 
swallowed up in Nirvana. 

" The great mass of men who could only be restrained 
from vice by vivid pictures of its future penalties and 
who could only be made virtuous by promises of eternal 
reward, found the needed motives in that modified, and 
more popular form of Buddhism that pictured the bliss 
f the Western Paradise and the torments of the UiO 
hells i an d which taught that every act of worship, kind 




Hi THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

deed, good desire, and holy purpose are unerringly placed 
to their credit in the ledger of the gods. Confucius over- 
estimated the national character when he expected a 
Chinamen to do good without pay, or to be deterred 
from evil because it was wrong." 

The priesthood invented the 160 Buddhistic hells in 
order to restrain mankind from evil. The key to this 
mystery is found, and the Christians adopted the pagan 
myth to benefit a higher civilization by a gigantic pre- 
varication. 

What amount of suffering the Buddhist endures to be 
annihilated at last ! This belief, however, is preferable to 
the one that the major portion of humanity is boiling 
forever in some Stygian Lake. 

It is self-evident that in an age of ignorance of the 
masses, hell and purgatory was invented to restrain the 
brutal nature by way of fear. It, also, is an easy way 
to secure money for the benefit of the Lord which makes 
the contiuance of this belief extremely desirable. Hell and 
purgatory is a legacy from paganism ! Whenever more 
money is needed for the Lord the beauty and grandeur 
of the satanic kingdom is portrayed with eloquence and 
the laity pay more money cheerfully to please the Great 
Jehovah ! 

A man asked a deacon this question: 
"What do you propothe to do with the money?" 
" Give it to the Lord," replied the deacon. "Well, thir 
said the man, " ath I think my chantheth of theeing the 
Lord are ath good ath yours, I prefer to wait and hand 
it to him in perthon," and he put his half dollar in his 
pocket. 

How many honestly think what would teachers of men 
talk about, if they could not explain the mysteries of 
salvation year after year. 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 145 

Let the churches echo the voice of science. It is a 
field as broad as the universe and as grand as immensity. 

This little* planet, though but an atom in comparison 
with the infinity of worlds, is a ball of grandeur that is 
a book whose every page is aglow with light and 
beauty. 

The science of life is hardly understood and it would 
yield a great benefit to mankind to know how to live 
properly in this world. 

Reforms in all classes of society are required to give 
civilization an impetus in the right direction. The 
Catholic priests say : 

" If a Catholic did wander away from Catholocism he 
would die a Catholic." 

Bruno would not kiss the cross when tied to a stake. 
It is a libel on the intelligent Catholic. If the priesthood 
would tell the truth, always, they would command more 
respect from the masses. It is found Thomas Paine and 
Voltaire are not atheists, but both believed in one God 
of Mercy — Voltaire had a chapel erected on his farm at 
Ferney. 

When Jesus was suffering excruciating pain upon the 
cross, did he vilify his enemies? Did he curse them? 
Did he excommunicate them ? 

Admit the existence of a hell, God is responsible for 
the fiery prison. If he could not control one of his 
angels in heaven, he is a very weak school-master. If 
he allowed him to prey upon weak humanity then he 
and Satan are partners in crime. 

If God and Satan could rejoice in the miseries of 
mankind then God is on the level, in injustice, with the 
devil. Isaiah says God created eviL In another place, 



146 THE NEW GABDEN OP EDEN. 

God laughs at the calamities of his people. It seems as 
though the bible places the great Jehovah on the same 
plane with barbarians. Moses and the priesthood could 
not picture their God any higher, morally, than them- 
selves. 

The priesthood like to inspire awe in the minds of 
their followers. They being representatives of God and 
Jesus, they wish to be regarded as exceedingly holy. 
The saints that are worshiped are intended to encourage 
the devotees to become reverential A picture of a 
saint with a long face and eyes looking upward is an 
example for earthly saints when they are in church — 
and on the Sabbath day. 

At one time in the history of the world lived what 
was termed pillar saints. Simon Stylites resided 37 
years on the top of a column, part of that time the 
column was 40 cubits high. 

There was one redeeming quality about the pillar 
saints, they did persecute their fellow men. 

If Jesus had happened to pass by one of these saints, 
he would have denounced his hypocracy, and bade him 
have less conceit and to come down from the column and 
study awhile in the school of common sense, and by liv- 
ing justly leave a lasting influence for the good of human- 
ity. Jesus did not waste any time in meditation on 
some lofty mountain, neither did he resort to the seclu- 
sion of a cloister and study the old superstitions, but in- 
scribed his name on the heart of humanity, which will 
never fade in its inherent light of divinity. He did not 
give an esthetic, mental scream whenever crime was 
mentioned and thought he was too near God to soil his 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 147 

mind with dealing with the reforms of his day. He in- 
stituted no harsh measure that leagues were necessary to 
protect mankind from his influence. No, Jesus was im- 
bued with kindness, love, and goodwill toward men, 
women and children. 

Sermon in the Synagogue. 

Jesus, clothed in costly raiment and dazzling jewels, 
preaches to his congregation thus : 

"Verily, I say unto you, that while you live upon 
earth be as conservative as possible. 

" The poor should be ignored, for they are not cultured, 
and their influence degrading to those used to the re- 
finement of good clothes. Reduce their wages often, for 
they are not as sensitive, as a class, as you are. 

" Be sure and enact laws to fine and imprison persons 
that heal the sick by the laying on of hands. 

" Do not fail to pray in public, and be sure to ask a 
large salary to reward you for your trouble." 

A little child wandered, aimlessly, near where he stood 
and he took it in his arms. Said he : 

" This child is full of ' original sin' and is totally de- 
praved. Unless it is baptized in holy salt and water it 
will burn forever in endless torment !" 

The mother screamed and went out of the Synagogue 
never more to believe in such pious teachings. Jesus 
resumed his remarks by saying that : 

"Mothers had no rights that the priesthood should 
respect in regard to making amendments to the Church 
laws, for * infant damnation' is an exceedingly humane 
text to preach to believers as one of my doctrines ! 

" The men in this congregation should seclude them- 
selves and continually contemplate the Deity. God 
would be benefited thereby, and so would humanity ! 
Be sure and view Eve's daughters as a near relative to 
satan and remember she brought sin into the world and 




14.8 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

it is your duty to keep her under strict surveillance, lest 
she has any happiness when she is in your company ! 

" It is wise to invent rituals to quarrel about, for by 
so doing you keep yourselves unspotted from the world. 

" Do not descend to the lower levels of humanity un- 
less you can secure their gold to your glory and 
honor. Keep within the Church ring, socially, and do 
not argue with an unbeliever, for our religion will not 
bear investigation ! Persecute your neighbors with as 
much ardor as you love yourselves ! 

" I portend that Titus, the Roman general, will sur- 
round Jerusalem, and John and Simon within the 
gates, Jewish generals, fighting each other and Jerusalem 
falls an easy prey to the Romans. I see, also, Christians 
will have various generals within their respective armies, 
or different denominations expire on the moral plane by 
the vindictive attitude they possess for each other. In- 
fidelity like the Romans will conquer, and humanity 
rise in its majesty unshackled by the chains of super- 
stition. 

At that moment Jesus saw his chariot, drawn by 
four horses, coming toward the synagogue, and he dis- 
missed his congregation by saying: "You must be 
thankful to my two fathers in heaven, which were the 
same as myself, all being each other's fathers and yet, 
only one, for the blessings you enjoy. Amen." 



CHAPTER V. 

Bible Errors. 

According to Kersey Graves' "Bible of Bibles" the 
bible contains two hundred and seventy-seven contra- 
dictions. He writes on page 134: 

"It is difficult to conceive how any real benefit or 
any reliable instruction can be derived from a book 
which contains statements with respect to doctrines or 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 149 

matters of fact that are contradicted on the next page, 
or in some other portion of the book ; because it not 
only confuses the mind of the reader, but renders it im- 
possible for him to know, as he reads a statement in one 
chapter of the book, that it is not contradicted and 
nullified in some other chapter, until he has sacrificed 
sufficient time to commit the whole book to memory, 
and but few persons have ever ashieved that herculean 
task. Hence it must be an unreliable book as author- 
ity." 

The following are some of the contradictions, copied 
from " Bible of Bibles" showing the infallibility of the 
supposed divine word. 

" Is God omnipotent ? Yes. ' With God all things 
are possible/ (Matt, xix :26). No. 'He could not drive 
out the inhabitants of the valley, because their chariots 
were made of iron.' (Judges, i:19). 

"Is God unchangeable 2 Yes. 'I change not.' 
(Mai. iii:6). No. 'And God repented of the evil that 
he had said that he would do unto them.' (Jno. iii :10). 

"Has any man seen God 1 Yes. 'Moses, Aaron, 
Nadab, and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel 
saw the God of Israel/ etc. (Exod. xxiv :9). No. 
'No man hath seen God at any time.' (John i:18). 
Yes. 'I have seen God face to face, and my life has 
been preserved.' (Gen. xxxii :30). No. 'There shall 
no man see me, and live.' (Exod. xxxiii :20). Yes. 
*I saw, also, the Lord sitting upon a throne/ (Isa. vi :1). 
No. * Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor 
seen his shape.' (John v :37). 

"Is it right to kill? No. 'Thou shalt not kill.' 
Yes. 'Thus saith the Lord God of Israel. Put every 
man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate 
to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his 
brother, and every man his companion, and every man 
his neighbor.' (Exod. xxxii :27). 

" Who can know whether the goldenrule is right or 



150 THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 

wrong? Bight. 'Whatsoever ye would that men 
should do unto you, do ye even so to them/ (Matt, 
vii :12). Wrong. * Spare them not, but slay both man 
and woman and infant.' (Sam. xv :3). 

"At what hour was Christ crucified? Mark says 
(xv :25), 'It was the third hour.' But according to John, 
(xix :14), 'It was about the sixth hour.' 

" How was Christ dressed for the crucifixion ?' l Put 
on him a scarlet robe.' (Math. xxvii:28). 'They 
put on him a purple robe.' (John xix :2). 

" What was the drink offered to Christ at the cruci- 
fixion ? Mark says it was wine mixed with myrrh but he 
received it not. (xv :23). 

" Matthew says it was vinegar and Luke also represents 
it as being vinegar, (xxiii :36), According to John's 
statement : i Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar, 
and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon 
hyssop, and put it to his mouth. When Jesus, therefore, 
had received the vinegar, he said : * It is finished/ etc., 
(xix :29,30). 

"Who bore Christ's cross? Matthew says, 'And as 
they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by 
name; him they compelled to bear the cross.' 
(xxvii:32). But John says Jesus bore it himself. 
(xix:27). 'Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto 
them, nor serve them 2 for I, the Lord thy God, am 
a jealous God/ etc." 

The Christians serve three gods and a goddess. 

" Honor thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy 
God hath commanded thee," etc. 

Jesus changed his ideas when he said : 

"If any man come to me, and hate not his father and 
mother, and wife and children, and brethren, and sisters, 
yea, and his own life, also, he cannot be my disciple." 
(Luke xiv:26). 

Jesus taught the golden rule and he never could be 
guilty of using such language. It was, no doubt, the 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 151 

work of designing priests, who cared nothing for the 
happiness of home life*. This verse gave their devotees 
a power to persecute an unbeliever, which has embit- 
tered members in families to an extent beyond all human 
calculations. 

Church society cannot frown on the event if one of 
its lady members separate from her family and unites 
with a community of a supposed Messiah. Their bible 
teaches, to hate is a desirable attribute in matters of 
belief, so it seems to be another phase of bible morality. 

If a Catholic priest wishes to leave his surplice, for 
the purpose of becoming a married man, consequently, 
a respectable member in society, can, if he wishes, leave 
wife and children and return to the priesthood with 
impunity ! To hate wife and children is not immoral 
in the Church, but how very improper for worldly 
people to separate, for good reasons that are sanctioned 
by a lofty sense of justice. 

In writing about the errors of the bible it does not 
signify that aught it contains that is beautiful, in fact 
and sentiment, is not appreciated, perhaps, far more 
than many who believe the book is a holy production. 

Whoever wrote the bible about Moses, wrote a bold 
hand, making his character the most remarkable of any 
on record. It is evident that he intended to 9011 vey the 
idea that Moses was equal with God in his manifestations 
or miracles. He is the one meant, no doubt, when the 
chronicler says : " God is a man of war I" Another 
statement, " And the Lord said unto Mosos : See, I have 
made thee a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron, thy brother, 
shall be thy prophet." 




152 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

God was certainly inferior to Moses when Moses had 
the power and inclination to counsel him and to soothe 
his temper Their temper was somewhat of equal force, 
showing that a leader or priest builds the character of 
his god no higher than himself, morally ! A man that 
committed murder, as Moses killed the Egyptian, in true 
bandit style, was just the man to write upon the tablets 
" thou shalt not kill" and then before the glory of the 
divinity had disappeared from his face get exceedingly 
angry, and massacre three thousand of his own people 
for a little difference of opinion. 

"Thou shalt not steal," appeared upon the tablet. 
After the Israelites borrowed jewelry from the Egyptians 
it seemed no disgrace to murder the nations with whom 
they came in contact and then to appropriate unto 
themselves their goods, which agrees with the beautiful 
words upon the tablet — "thou shalt not steal." The 
Jews must have borrowed considerable valuables from 
the Egyptians for they were far from being poor, by 
many indications, on their journey toward the land 
flowing with milk and honey. Moses made his people 
believe that they should be killed if they ventured to 
climb Mt. Sinai, where he and God were in social con- 
verse. He was making proper conditions for his com- 
munion with God and did not want any one to discover 
the illuminated paraphernalia, etc. Moses was learned in 
the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was a magician, also. 

The first account given of Mt. Sinai, stone tablets are 
not mentioned. The second records the appearance of 
the tablets but they are not broken by the anger of 
Moses. The story increases with age, and a graphic 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 153 

description appears in the third record the stones are 
broken, and his high-handed career commences as a 
murderer worthy of the one that committed the crime 
of killing an Egyptian, as Moses did, and then hiding him 
in the sand ! The fourth revelation states that Moses 
received two more tables of stone, with the law, etc., in- 
scribed upon them. The question arises, where are 
those tablets 1 The angels took the Mormon's written 
messages upon golden stones to heaven, after translation 
into a book, or Mormon bible. That is a fine way to 
preserve them — from contact with mortal vision ! There 
is no doubt, but that such a man existed as Moses, and 
he knew how to write, went up Mt. Sinai and selected 
some stones and inscribed the ten commandments and 
the laws, many that were borrowed from Egyptian 
statutes. 

St. Luke, chapter ninth, gives an account of Moses 
and Elias appearing to Jesus. Jesus wished to go up on 
a mountain to pray, and he had John and James and 
Peter go with him. It must have surprised them all to 
meet with angels, who left such a pure record while on 
earth, Jesus had so much respect for the laws of Moses, 
it was quite natural that Moses would come to him ! 

Again, it does not agree with the Seventh Day Advent- 
ist's belief. They, Moses and Elias, should have stayed 
in their graves until Gabriel blew his trumpet at the last 
day of the world's history. 

The monstrous hallucination about the second coming 
of Christ will never leave the minds of the deluded un- 
til they read the words of the prophecy themselves and 
judge the meaning by common sense. 




154 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

When many break away from the thralldom of the 
creeds, go to the opposite extreme and deny a belief in 
any thing appertaining to the divine, in process of 
time, many of that class, by using reason, take a medium 
course, become less positive and more susceptible to 
truth. 

Again, there is another kind of mentality that never 
thinks on any subject, who come out of the Churches 
and believe something that is as unreasonable as the 
creeds. Reason's wings are very small at first, but by 
exercise they grow to grand proportions and soar in the 
ether cf cultivated imagination, proudly as the eagle, who 
basks in the sunlight of his mountain home, or eyrie on 
some gigantic cliff upon the sea shore. 



CHAPTER VI. 

Cliurcli and State. 

A few years ago an able speech was delivered in Con- 
gress by Senator Reagan of Texas. He said : 

" The history of the world is full of the dangers of the 
Church and State, and the framers of our government 
desired to protect this nation from any such danger. 

"We find that for several years considerabls appro- 
priations have been made for the education of the In- 
dians in contract schools. In one year fifteen denom- 
inations received $204,993 while the Catholics were al- 
lowed $359,967 !" 

Appropriations for various Catholic institutions have 
been given in New York City which amount to vast 
sums of public money and used for sectarian purposes. 

No wonder Senator Reagan exclaims that : 
'It is an unnatural condition of things in this coun- 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Jit to be frowned down, and voted 
down, and put out of existence/' 

If all the States would act as promptly as Nevada in 
resisting the demands of the Catholics, there would be 
no trouble in this respect. When the Sisters of Charity 
wished an appropriation of the people's money for the 
benefit of their Orphan Asylum in Virginia City, the 
bill was defeated before it became a law. The people's 
money represent the taxes paid by all classes and it is 
decidedly wrong. It is in the same category of morals, 
as breaking into a neighbor's house when all the inmates 
are unconscious, and appropriating that which does not 
belong to the burglar. 

The taxes paid to the Government is supposed to be in 
the keeping of honest officials to pay expenses and to use 
it for the benefit of all wherever it is needed — not to be 
given to a few who despise the State and would return 
the favor by crushing out the liberties of those from 
whom they took money that did not belong to them. 

The School Amendment. 

In Congress, the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Hoar) presented recently a petition signed by 3,228 
citizens of Massachusetts, praying for the adoption of a 
constitutional amendment which will prohibit the inter- 
ference of any religious sect with the system of 
common public schools. The petition is as follows: 

" To the Honorable Senate and Members of the House of 
Representatives in Washington, D. C. : 

"We, the undersigned citizens of Massachusetts, 
sensibly impressed with the importance of education 
among the people of our land, in the conservation of our 
Government and the liberties which we so richly enjoy ; 



156 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

believing, also, as expressed in a late public gathering of 
patriotic citizens of Boston, in old Faneuil Hall, 'it has 
now become necessary to guard well the public school as 
the palladium of our liberty ;' and being persuaded also 
that this desired protection will be more fully affected by 
a provision in the fundamental laws of the land (as 
urged upon Congress by that eminent and patriotic 
citizen, General Grant, while in the Presidential office,) 
would respectfully petition your honorable bodies to 
speedily frame such article for submission to the Legis- 
latures of the several States, for their approval or re- 
jection, as will prevent the interference of any religious 
sect with the c common school system' or the appropri- 
ating of any of the * public funds' for sectarian uses ; 
such a measure as this being, in our judgment, the only 
safeguard against religious encroachments, such as now 
threaten our time-honored, and truly endeared methods 
of teaching and training our youth for the duties 
and responsibilities of American citizenship ; to the end, 
also, that there may be preserved to us and transmitted 
to our children's children 'a government of the people, 
by the people, and for the people.' " 

Italy's Free Schools, 1891. 

" The Italian government has commenced at the right 
end in its efforts to inculcate patriotism in the hearts of 
the rising generation. It has taken possession of the 
schools, and young Italy is being taught that its first 
allegiance is to king and country, instead of to Pope 
and Church. A system of compulsory free education 
has been established, and no school is allowed to remain 
open which does not comply w^ith the government re- 
quirements. Many of the Italian children, however, 
are being educated in parish schools, but these institu- 
tions are not permitted to run upon the free-and-easy, 
go-as-you-please system which characterizes the parochial 
schools in the United States. The government insists 
that in every parish school the text-books used shall be 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 157 

those authorized by the government ; that all the 
teachers must be those authorized by the government ; 
that all scholars must pass an examination by the gov- 
ernment inspectors, and that the portrait of the king 
must be in every school-room. 

" This system of national education has brought about 
a wondrous change. In 1870 the percentage of illiter- 
acy in Rome was 90 per cent.; now it is barely 45. 
The children are growing up thoroughly patriotic and 
loyal to the government. The Pope cuts every day less 
and less of a political factor in Italian affairs. Educa- 
tion and civil and religious liberty are driving out ignor- 
ance and priestly tyranny. The school house is proving 
more than a match for the Vatican. u 

"In liberty loving America the Jesuits voted down 
the Constitution under which New Mexico Territory 
was to enter Statehood, their objection being in its pro- 
vision of public, in place of their parochial schools. 
This keeps New Mexico out of the Union at present." 
Nov. 1 2th, 1890. — Exchange. 

In proportion as civilization advances to a higher 
standard of perfection, revolutions are regulated without 
bloodshed, as in the case of the Mormons being made to 
pass on to a more humane life and leave the superstition 
as a grave on the highway of life. Another instance is 
recorded of Mexico ; although a Catholic country, it was 
disgusted with the followers of Jesus — the Jesuits. The 
following extracts were printed in 1876. They are : 

"Twenty years ago, two-thirds of the real estate in 
Mexico was owned by the Romish Church, but, as the 
result of the mighty uprising of the past fifteen years 
against the Church oligarchy, Mexico has now not a 
monk, nun, Sister of Charity or Jesuit within its bor- 
ders. Bishop Butler tells thrilling stories of the In- 
quisition in Mexico, which has been overthrown within 
twenty years. The old Inquisition buildings at Pueblo 



158 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

are now owned by the Methodist mission, and Dr. Butler 
has with his own hands removed skeletons of men and 
woman from the cells in which, he says, not many years 
ago they were walled in and left to die, like Marmions 
Constance at Holy Isle. The headquarters of the mis- 
sion in the city of Mexico, are in the former palace of 
the last Montezuma, which had, for more than 300 
years been used as a Franciscan convent till the con- 
fiscation of Church property by the General Government. " 

When the yoke was broken between Church and 
State, how quickly universal toleration was proclaimed. 
The account reads : 

"The press was made free; free schools established 
and universal toleration. The whole Church property 
became the property of the State — the clergy only 
tenants by courtesy. No such a bold and radical 
change was ever before made in a Catholic country. " 

The Independent, Henderson Co., Minn., paper has 
this advice : 

" A young lady residing in St. Paul, the only daughter 
of a Protestant mother, was sent to St. Joseph's Academy 
to secure an education. She graduated and returned 
home, but shortly after ran away and entered a convent. 
The mother was nearly broken hearted at the affair, but 
this had no effect on the girl, as the sisters had told her 
that it was her duty to renounce the world and enter a 
convent, even if it killed her mother. Parents 
should take warning by this. If you care anything for 
the love of your children, let them get an education in 
public schools, and let all religious institutions severely 
alone." 

The "Black VEIL. ,, 

The eccentric doings of "Father" Ignatius, an ultra 
Ritualist of the English Church, have made him noto- 
rious for many years. The London "Truth" thus de" 
scribes one of his latest official acts : 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 159 

" An extraordinary scene was witnessed at Llanthony 
Abbey on Sunday week, when Father Ignatius admitted 
a novice to the mysteries of the " Black Veil." Oppo- 
site the principle shrine was a black funeral bier, covered 
with a velvet pall, with white cross and a huge candle 
stick at each corner. The novice knelt by its side. 
After mass and a sermon, the " Father Abbot" sat down 
in his chair by the altar, arrayed in a gorgeous robe, 
embroidered with angels and saints, with a rich jeweled 
mitre on his shaven head, and a crosier in his hand 
The nuns in their grated gallery sang a chant, while the 
father cut off the hair of the novice, two acolytes hold- 
ing a towel to receive it. Then she was clad in her 
nun's robes, with a crimson veil and a wreath of flowers, 
and, after a variety of intricate ceremonies, she was 
placed on a throne-like chair before the altar, and the 
whole of the monks, sisters and acolytes prostrated 
themselves before her, and as they kissed the hem of 
her garment she placed her hands on their heads. After 
the procession she was laid on the bier and covered with 
a pall, and the abbot and acolytes came forward in a 
magpie like costume of black and white, the "father" 
with a high, caul cap-like linen-mitre on his head. Then 
the funeral service was chanted, a muffled bell sounded, 
and the monks bore away bier and nun behind the 
gratings. 

This nation should never allow a nunnery on its soil, 
for it is a kingdom where the priest rules with despotic 
power over the life and liberty of young ladies. It is 
contrary to the spirit of justice and humanity. 

Catholicism. 

[The Boston Investigator.] 
Mr. Editor : — Father Chiniquy, who is preaching 
around here, is an ex-Catholic, now 80 years old, and 
for 25 years was a Romish priest He says, in one of 
his reported sermons : 



160 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

"The Roman Catholic Church is blasphemous and 
idolatrous. Its members were honest, but the priests 
practised deception, and inculcated horrible and diaboli- 
cal ideas into the minds of their parishioners to make 
them confess their sins. The priests were thieves when 
they pretended that they could take souls out of purga- 
tory by accepting large sums of money from relatives of 
dead people. The Roman Catholic Church was not 
founded by Christ or the apostles. There was not a 
word of God in it. Its principal idea was to make 
money and preach the false traditions of men instead of 
the gospel in the bible. 

" He described in a feeling manner his conversion from 
Romanism to Protestantism. He told of his missionary 
work as a Catholic priest in Canada and the Western States 
and said that now he might have been one of the heads 
of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the United States, 
if he had not accepted the Protestant religion. The 
Pope had offered him the highest hoDors for his services, 
and the Canadian Parliament had presented him with a 
gold medal, as a compliment to his missionary labors. 
In closing he called upon every Protestant to awaken to 
the signs of the times. The Roman Catholics were 
bound to conquer if they could. Protestants must 
maintain their rights and resist every encroachment 
of the Catholics tending toward Church and State. 
Eternal life was the gift only of the Saviour, and not of 
a man in priestly garb, who pretended he could blot out 
sins in the confessional." 

The Jesuits. 

This order of the Roman Catholic Church, was insti- 
tuted in 1535, and became so notorious for its lax sys- 
tem of morals, ambition, and intrigues, that sentence of 
abolition against it was passed by the Government of al- 
most every civilized nation; and, at last, in 1773, by 
Pope Clement XIV, (who was poisoned by them the 




THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN, 161 

year after.) A bull was issued for the restoration of the 
order of the Jesuits in 1814, by Pope Pius VII. 

Since that time the Jesuits have continued their work 
all over the world. There are a great many of them in 
this country — in fact, the United States are their strong 
hold, as they have been driven out of nearly all Europe. 
They are a dangerous set, and need watching. In Italy, 
as may be seen by the following, the Government is very 
severe with them, far more so than our own Govern- 
ment : 

Italy has banished from all her educational insti- 
tutions the Jesuit and the priest, not as a high official of 
the Government recently said, "because the Government 
is opposed to religion, but because she fears the traitor. }y 
The Jesuit and the priest have constantly been intrigu- 
ing against popular government in Austria, Italy, and 
France. In Italy the Jesuits and priests in great num- 
bers were taken as spies of their enemies, they were even 
allies of the brigan s, and are intensely in favor of the 
temporal power of the Pope. 

The Italian Government will not allow this insidious 
work, and thus at present is carefully watching, and is 
expelling from the school-rooms secret priests, who have 
insinuated suggestions of the recovery of temporal power, 
since the Papal jubilee, and since the Ultramontane 
party has become bolder. The Government is dealing 
severely with these traitors, who are trying to establish 
a foreign power in the State, and in the schools. It 
banishes from the schools all teachers in favor of the re- 
instatement of the Papal rule. — [Transcript. 

There is a conflict between many of our public schools 
and the Catholics. It is wise to watch the various 
schemes adopted to carry out their programme ; to 
watch also the operations of the Clan-na-Gael, a secret 




162 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

society which carries out the orders for the Chief who 
resides at Rome. 

A. J. Grover states that : 

"It is well known that Mr. Blaine sought and ex- 
pected the Jesuits' support ; it is well known that the 
Clan-na-Gael supported him ; that Pat Egan, Alexander 
Sullivan and all the leaders of that secret conclave of 
conspirators were his friends and he theirs. They believed 
the Republican party would continue in power and 
Alexander Sullivan would have a cabinet office under 
Elaine. No doubt Blaine had promised to appoint him, 
deep-dyed with the blood of Hanford as he was, Jesuit 
as he is, embezzler as he is." 

Again, he says : 

" It is proven that the funds of the Clan-na-Gael were 
not used for the cause of Ireland. It was a pretence, to 
cover the real purpose, which was to destroy the public 
schools and run the politics of the country. Alexander 
Sullivan began by killing a school-master of leading in- 
fluence who was opposed to Roman Catholic control of 
the Chicago schools. The Jesuits saved their leader and 
tool from the gallows. 

"The order of the Society of Jesus has very large con- 
trol of the press, pulpit, political parties, and almost 
absolute control of some of the Chicago courts and the 
police force. When this great secret organization can 
seize a national party, form an alliance with its leaders 
and shape its policy, what can be done ? When it can 
with impunity and undiscovered by the public remove 
Presidents who will not do their bidding, as it did Lin- 
coln, if not Garfield; when it can bring to this country 
its method and practices in the old world for hundreds, 
of years, by which liberty has been perpetually destroyed, 
what do the people propose to do ? We shall see. The 
Jesuits killed Hanford; the Jesuits killed Cronin; the 
Jesuits killed Lincoln. The first, to promote their schemes 
to control the public schools; the second, to prevent the 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 163 

exposure of their appropriation of Irish funds to their 
political purposes in this country; and their political 
purposes are to control national parties and ultimately 
make this country politically subject to the temporal 
power of the Pope. Will not honest men and women 
see that Popery and liberty cannot live in this same 
country % This country is large, but there is not room 
for both." 

It is well for all persons who are loyal to their coun- 
try to read the bills and laws that are printed in the 
papers about the work of the United States Congress, 
and, also, every State in the Union. 

See the modest demand, of the missionaries belonging 
to the Methodist Episcopal Church, who desired the re- 
peal of the „ Geary Chinese Exclusion Law. They 
petitioned Congress from China for the reason they were 
afraid the Chinese would destroy their property they 
valued at $400,000,000. They were very patriotic 
when they rather have this Republic crushed and des- 
troyed by paganism than to lose the paltry sum of 
$400,000,000. 

The Murder op Abraham Lincoln. 

Planned and Executed by Jesuit Priests. 
[The Boston Investigator.) 

Mr. Editor: Ninety miles Northwest of St. Paul, 
(Minn.,) is the little village of St. Joseph, settled by 
Roman Catholics, and with a college for the education 
of priests. On the 14th of April, 1865, at 6 o'clock in 
the afternoon, two men drove up to the village hotel; 
one was the Rev. R A. Con well, chaplain of the First 
Minnesota Regiment, the other was Horace P. Ben- 
nett, a resident of St. Cloud, about ten miles eastward. 
While Mr. Bennett was attending to the horses in the 
barn, the landlord, J. H. Linneman, who had charge of 
the friary and was a purveyor for the priests, told 



164 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

chaplain Conwell that President Lincoln and Secretary 
Seward were assassinated. And when Mr. Bennett re- 
turned from the barn to the tavern, the landlord re- 
peated the statement to both his guests. 

This was not later than 6.30 P. m., and the assassina- 
tion of Lincoln did not occur until about 10 p. M, 
Allowing for the difference in time between St. Joseph 
and Washington, the news of the assassination had 
apparently reached St. Joseph at least two hours be- 
fore it occurred ! 

Early the next morning the two men went to St. 
Cloud, arriving there about 8 o'clock. There Mr. 
Conwell told the hotel keeper, Haworth, what he had 
heard about the assassination of Lincoln and Seward. 
He told it also to several other men. None of them had 
heard such news. The nearest railroad station from St. 
Joseph was forty miles, and the nearest telegraph 
eighty miles. 

The next day, April 16, was Sunday, and Chaplain 
Conwell started for Church, where he w r as to preach. 
On his way a copy of a telegram was handed him an- 
nouncing the assassination of Lincoln and Seward. 

On Monday, April 17, Mr. Conwell addressed the St. 
Paul Press the following paragraph : 

A Steange Coincidence. 

"At 6.30 P. M., Friday last, April 14, I was told as 
an item of news, eight miles west of this place (St. Cloud,) 
that Lincoln and Seward had been assassinated." 

This was published, but the fact being discredited by 
the editor, another communication was sent by Mr. Con- 
well which was printed as follows : 

" The integrity of history requires that the above co- 
incidence be established. And if any one calls it in 
question, than proofs more ample than reared their 
sanguinary shadows to comfort the traitor can now be 
given." 

Was this merely " a strange coincidence 1 * Emphati- 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 165 

cally, no ! The priests of St. Joseph knew that Abra- 
ham Lincoln and other heads of the national Govern- 
ment were to be assassinated on Friday, April 14, 1865. 

The first intimation that came to the ears of Abraham 
Lincoln that he was to become a victim to the vengeance 
of the Romish priesthood was as early as October, 1856. 
Twice in that year he had defended a Catholic priest, 
Father Chiniquy, of St. Anne, (Illinois,) before a jury, 
on a false accusation of crime. The first trial was in 
May, 1856, at Urbana, seventy miles distant from the 
accused. Mr. Lincoln demolished the testimony of two 
perjured priests and his client would have been ac- 
quitted but for the blunder of allowing a single Roman 
Catholic on the jury. 

The case was tried again in October following. The 
testimony of a priest, named LeBelle, against the char- 
acter of Father Chiniquy was of such a nature as to hor- 
rify everybody. The cross-examination by Mr. Lincoln 
did much to break the force of the direct testimony, but 
he feared its effects upon a jury unacquainted with the 
character of his client. When the court adjourned in 
the evening Mr. Lincoln said : 

" My dear Mr. Chiniquy, though I hope to-morrow to 
destroy the testimony of LeBelle, I must concede that I 
see great danger ahead. I feel that the jurymen think 
you guilty, and that you will be condemned to a heavy 
penalty or to the penitentiary, though I am sure you are 
perfectly innocent. It is very probable that we shall 
have to confront LeBehVs sister to-morrow, who will 
confirm the false testimony of her brother. Her alleged 
sickness is doubtless a feint, in order that her e^lence 
may come in after that of her brother. And perhaps we 
shall have to meet her testimony as taken before some 
local justice, which will be all the harder to rebut. That 
woman is evidently in the hands of Bishop O' Regan and 
her brother, ready to swear to anything they order her. 
Nothing is so difficult to refute as female testimony, par- 
ticularly when the woman is absent from court. The 



166 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

only way to be sure of a favorable verdict to-morrow is, 
that God Almighty would take part and show your inno- 
cence. Go to him, for he alone can save you." 

These words are as recorded by Father Chiniquy him- 
self, and they are perhaps a little colored, coming 
through the medium of a very pious and conscientious 
priest, who was to renounce the error of Papacy and be- 
come a devout Protestant. Sadly Father Chiniquy be- 
took himself to his room, where, through the night, he 
wrestled in prayer. It was an awful night of agony. 
But at 3 o'clock there was loud knocking at his door. 
Quickly the tearful priest opened it and there stood 
Abraham Lincoln, who said : 

"Cheer up, my dear Chiniquy, I have the perjured 
priests in my hands. Their diabolical plot is known 
and if they do not fly away before the dawn of day they 
will surely be lynched. Bless the Lord, you are saved." 

The next morning the court-house could not contain 
the crowd that came to see the result of that trial. 
The perjured priest LeBelle had fled, but there were 
numerous other holy fathers present hoping to witness 
the condemnation of the French Canadian priest. Judge 
David Davis took his seat on the bench and the com- 
plainant Spink, a tool of Bishop O'Regan, rose, pale and 
trembling, to ask to be allowed to withdraw the prose- 
cution. The motion was of course granted, but the 
miserable priests in attendance were then regaled with 
a most eloquent and scathing speech by Abraham Lin- 
coln on the rascality of this prosecution, and the in- 
famous character of the Romish priesthood in general. 

Accepting a fee of only fifty dollars for his services, 
Lincoln turned to his client and said, " Father Chiniquy, 
what makes you weep*? You ought to be the most 
happy man alive ; you have beaten your enemies and 
gained a most glorious victory. 7 ' 

"Dear Mr. Lincoln," answered the priest, "the joy 
I should naturally feel for such a victory is turned to 
grief when I think of its consequence to you. Not less 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 167 

than ten or twelve Jesuit priests came from Chicago 
and St. Louis to hear my sentence of condemnation. 
But instead of that you have brought the thunders of 
heaven on their heads ; you have made the walls of the 
court-house tremble with your denunciation of their in- 
famy. They are enraged, and I fear that I have read 
your death sentence in their bloody eyes." 

At first Lincoln treated the warning lightly, but after- 
wards said, "I know the Jesuits never forget or forgive; 
but what matters it how or where a man dies, provided 
it is at the post of duty ? " 

The election of Lincoln to the presidency was unani- 
mously opposed by the Catholic priests. The Church of 
Rome looked upon the division between North and 
South as her golden opportunity in America. She or- 
dered her elder son, the Emperor of France, to send an 
army to Mexico so as to be ready to help crush the 
Northern States. She bade the bishops, priests, and 
people to vote in opposition to Abraham Lincoln. Only 
one Bishop dared to disobey. 

Father Chiniquy had now renounced the Papist creed 
and become a devout Protestant. At the end of Aug- 
ust, 1861, a Roman priest whom he had persuaded to 
leave the errors of Popery, disclosed to him a plot to 
assassinate the President. He thought it his duty to go 
and tell him of it. He was received with great cordiality 
by Mr. Lincoln, who said : 

"You see that your friends, the Jesuits, have not 
killed me yet. But they would have don3 it when I 
went through Baltimore had I not defeated their plans 
by passing incognito a few hours before they expected 
me. We have the proof that the company selected and 
organized to murder me was led by a rabid Roman 
Catholic named Byrne, and that in the gang were two 
disguised priests. I am sorry to have so little time to 
see you, but I will not let you go before telling you that 
a few days ago Prof. Morse told me that v> h n he was in 
Rome, not long ago, he found the proofs of a formidable 




168 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

conspiracy against this country and its institutions. It 
is evident that it is to the intrigues and emissaries of 
the Pope, that we owe, in a great part, this horrible Civil 
War." 

The next day, Chiniquy was received again by the 
President. "I want your views," said Lincoln, "about 
a thing that is exceedingly puzzling to me. A great 
number of Democratic papers have been sent to me 
lately, containing statements that I am an apostate 
Roman Catholic. No priest of Rome ever laid his hand 
on my head. Tell me what is the meaning of these 
falsehoods 1 " 

"It means your sentence of death," said Chiniquy, 
" and I have it from the lips of a converted priest that 
in order to execute the fanaticism of Roman Catholic 
murderers, the priests have invented the false story of 
your being born a Catholic and being baptized by a priest. 
An apostate from the Church of Rome is an outcast 
who has no right to live. Here is a copy of a decree of 
Gregory VII, proclaiming that the killing of an apos- 
tate or a heretic is not murder. Such is the canon law 
of the Catholic Church." 

Realizing the imminent danger, Mr. Lincoln said : 

"1 repeat to you what I said at Urbana in 1856, 
when you fir.t warned me against the Jesuits. But I 
will now add that I have a presentiment that God will 
call me through the hand of an assassin. Let his will 
be done. I feel more and more that it is not against 
the South alone we are fighting, but against the Pope of 
Rome and his perfidious Jesuits, who are the principal 
rulers of the South. The great majority of the Catholic 
bishops, priests and laymen, are rebels in heart, and, 
with few exceptions, they are pro-slavery ! I under- 
stand now why the patriots of France were compelled to 
kill so many priests and monks ; they were and always 
are the enemies of Liberty." 

Again, in June, 1862, Father Chiniquy called on the 
President to warn him against impending dangers, but 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 169 

could only shake hands with him. It was just after the 
grand victory of the Monitor over the Merrimac, and 
the conquest of New Orleans by Admiral Earragut, and 
Mr. Lincoln was too busy to grant an interview. 

Once more in June, 1864, came Chiniquy to Wash- 
ington, and the President managed to have an interview 
with him by taking him in his carriage to visit the 
wounded soldiers in the hospital. Mr. Lincoln said: 

" This war would never had been possible without the 
sinister influence of the Jesuits. We owe it all to 
Popery. I conceal this from the knowledge of the 
nation, because if the people knew what I do, this 
would become a religious war and assume a tenfold more 
savage and bloody character. If the people could know 
what Prof. Morse has told me of the plots at Rome to 
destroy this Republic, if they could realize that the 
priests, monks, and nuns who land on our shores under 
the pretext of propagating their religion, teaching our 
children, and nursing the sick in our hospitals, are only 
the emissaries of the Pope and the other despots of Eu- 
rope, to undermine our institutions and propose a reign 
of anarchy here as they have done in Ireland, in Mexico, 
and in Spain, the Protestants, both North and South, 
would surely unite to exterminate the priests of Rome." 

The President then asked Mr. Chiniquy if he had 
read the letter of the Pope to Jeff Davis ; and if so what 
he thought of it. The ex-priest replied : 

" My dear President, that is just what brought me 
here again. That letter is a poisoned arrow aimed by 
the Pope at you personally. You know how many 
liberty-loving Irish, German, and Fpench Catholics have 
been fighting for the Union. To detach these men 
from the ranks of the Northern armies has been the aim 
of the Jesuits. Secret and pressing letters have been 
addressed from Rome to the bishops, ordering them to 
weaken your armies by detaching these men. The 
bishops answered that they could not do it without ex- 
posing themselves to death, but they advised the Pope 



170 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

to recognize at once the legitimacy of the Southern Re- 
public, and to take Jeff Davis under his protection by a 
letter which would be read everywhere. By that letter 
his blind slaves understand that you are outraging the God 
of heaven and earth by continuing this bloody war to 
subdue a nation whose legitimacy is recognized by God's 
vicegerent. That letter means that you are not only 
an apostate whom every Catholic has a right to kill, 
but you are a lawless brigand whom every Catholic 
ought to kill. This, my dear President, is not a fanciful 
interpretaticn of my own ; it is the unanimous explanation 
given me by a great number of priests at Rome, with 
whom I have had occasion to speak on this subject. 
I conjure you, therefore, to protect your precious life." 
The President replied at great length, saying : 
"You confirm me in my view of the Pope's letter, 
and Prof. Morse is of the same mind with you. Since 
the publication of that letter there have been many de- 
sertions. But Gen. Sheridan remains true to his oath of 
fidelity and is worth a whole army by his ability and 
courage. Gen. Meade has gained the battle at Gettys- 
burg, but he was surrounded by such heroes as Rey- 
nolds, Wads worth, Slocum, Sickles, Hancock, Howard, 
and others. And yet he let the rebel a,: my e cape. 
When he was to order the pursuit, a stranger came to 
him in haste; that stranger was a disguised Jesuit. 
After ten minutes' conversation with him, Meade made 
such arrangements for the pursuit that the enemy es- 
caped almost untouched, with the loss of only two guns. 
The New York draft riots were the work of Bishop 
Hughes and his emissaries. We 'have the proofs in 
hand of that. I wrote to Bishop Hughes, telling him 
that the whole country would hold him responsible if he 
did not stop the riots at once. He then gathered the 
rioters around his palace, called them his dear friends, 
invited them to go back home peacefully, and they 
obeyed. The Pope and his Jesuits have ale t d and 
supported the rebellion from the first gun-shot at Foit 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 171 

Sumter by the rabid Roman, Beauregard. They are 
helping the Roman Catholic Semmes, on the ocean. I 
have the proof in hand that Bishop Hughes, whom I 
sent to Rome in the hope that he would induce the Pope 
to urge American Catholics to be true to their oath of 
allegiance, and whom I thanked publicly, under the be- 
lief that he had acted honestly, according to his promise 
to me, is the very man who advised the Pope to recog- 
nize the Southern Confederacy. My embassadors in 
Italy, Prance, and England, as well as Prof. Morse, have 
warned me against the plots of Jesuits. But I see no 
other safeguard against those murderers than to be al- 
ways ready to die, as Christ advises it. We must all 
die, sooner or later, and it makes very little difference to 
me whether I die by a dagger thrust through my breast, 
or from an inflammation of the lungs/ ' 

Then taking his bible, the President opened it and 
read from Deuteronomy iii : 2 2-28, where God told Moses 
to go up to the top of Pisgah and behold the promised 
land, for he would not be allowed to pass over Jordon. 
"My dear Father Chiniquy," said Lincoln, "I have 
read these strange and beautiful words several times in 
the last five or six weeks, and the more I read them the 
more it seems to me that God has written them for me, 
as well as Moses." 

On the 14th of April, 1865, at ten o'clock in the even- 
ing President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes 
Booth at Ford's Theater, and at the same hour Lewis 
Payne attempted to murder Wm. H. Seward. Two or 
three hours before this occurred, a Catholic landlord at 
St. Joseph, Minn., told Francis A. Con well and Horace 
P. Bennett that Lincoln and Seward were assassinated. 
The two men make affidavit of the fact, sworn to Sept. 
6, and Oct. 18, 1883. Landlord Linneman, purveyor 
for the priests, refuses to swear, but makes a written 
declaration Oct. 20, 1883, duly signed, saying that he 
told Mr. Con well and Mr. Bennett that "he hard this 
rumor in his store from people who came in and out; 



172 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

but he cannot remember from whom." That lapse of 
memory probably saved the landlord's life. The priests 
of St. Joseph were cognizant of the plot to assassinate 
Lincoln and Seward. 

Without a single exception the conspirators were 
Roman Catholics. It is true that Atzeroth, Payne, and 
Harold asked for Protestant ministers when they were 
to be hung, but they had been considered Catholics till 
then. John Wilkes Booth was a proselyte to Catholi- 
cism, and so was Atzeroth, Payne and Harold. But 
had their father confessors appeared with them on the 
scaffold that would have opened the eyes of the Ameri- 
can people to clearly see that the assassinations of Lin- 
coln and Seward were planned and executed by Jesuit 
priests. The murderers were instructed to conceal their 
religion. Such is the doctrine of the Catholic Church. 
St. Liguori says : 

" It is often more to the glory of God and the good of 
our neighbor to conceal our religious faith, as wnen we 
live among heretics we can more easily do them good in 
that way ; or if, by declaring our religion, we cause 
some disturbances, or deaths, or even the wrath of the 
tyrant (Liguori Theologia, ii :3). 

Dr. Mudd, at whose place Booth stopped in his flight, 
was a Catholic, and so was Garrett, in whose barn Booth 
was killed. 

After the murder Father Chiniquy came to Washing- 
ton in disguise. He found that the inrluence of Rome 
at the Capital was almost Supreme. The only states- 
man who dared to face the nefarious influence of Rome 
was General Baker. But several other statesmen con- 
fessed that without doubt the Jesuits were at the bottom 
of the plot ; and sometimes this would appear so clearly 
in evidence before the military tribunal that it was 
feared it could not be kept from the public. Mrs. Sur- 
ratt was a Catholic, and her house was the commcn 
rendezvous of the priests. With a little mo;e pressure 
on the witnesses, many of the priosts would have been 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 173 

compromised. But the civil war was hardly over, and 
the Confederacy, though broken down, was still living 
in millions of hearts ; formidable elements of discord 
were still existing, to which the hanging or exiling of 
the guilty priests would give new life. Riots upon riots 
would follow. It was, therefore, concluded to be the 
best policy to punish only those who were publicly and 
visibly guilty, so that the verdict might receive the ap- 
probation of all, without creating new bad feelings. 
And this, they said, was the policy of the late President ; 
for there was nothing he so much feared as a war be- 
tween Protestants and Catholics, 

It is evident that a very elaborate plan of escape for 
the murderers had been arranged by the priests of 
Rome. The priest, Charles Boucher, swears that a few 
days after the murder, John Surratt was sent to him by 
Father Lapierre, of Montreal, that he kept him con- 
cealed in his parsonage from the end of April to the 
end of July ; that then he took him back to Lapierre, 
who kept him secreted in his own father's house, under 
the very shadow of the palace of Bishop Bourbet, where 
he remained until September ; that thence he was taken 
in disguise by himself and Lapierre to Quebec. It fur- 
ther appears that he was taken from Quebec to an ocean 
steamer Sept. 15, by Lapierre. who introduced him as 
McCarty. And who was Lapierre 1 ? The canon and 
confidential servant of Bishop Bourbet, of Montreal. 
Lapierre and Boucher, who accompanied Suratt in the 
carriage, were the ambassadors and representatives of 
the Pope. Surratt was sent to Rome, where he enlisted 
as a Zouave under the name of Watson. Our Govern- 
ment found him out, and the Pope was forced to give 
him up. But in doing so the Jesuits managed to have 
him escape to Egypt. There he was arrested, extra- 
dicted, brought to Washington, and tried. But two or 
three of the jurymen were Catholics, who had been 
taught that the killing of a heretic is no murder. The 



174 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 



jury disagreed, and the Government was forced to let 
the murderer go free. 

The above account of the murder of Abraham Lincoln 
is only an abridgement from Father Ghiniquy's " Fifty 
years in the Church of Rome," 30th edition, 832 pages, 
published in Chicago, by Adam Craig. Chiniquy, now 
in his 81st year, is lecturing in various cities. He claims 
to have made 35,000 converts from Romanism to Pro- 
testantism." 

Henry Kidder was at one time superintendent of 
public schools in New York City. He had labored in 
the interests of its schools for twenty years and had 
written text-books for schools that were recognized in 
the French Academy. Bat when he wrote a book upon 
the subject of Spiritualism this fact gave the priesthood 
an excuse to dethrone this efficient man from his hon- 
ored position for the reason that Catholicism exclaims that 
"no man has a right to think, only in the line of the 
Catholic faith." 

Another instance of a teacher losing her position on 
the account of opinion, was by the treachery of a Catho- 
lic and a Protestant. Her great crime was that she be- 
lieved in the immortality of the soul, based upon facts 
and not on faith. She conscientiously believed it was un- 
just for teachers to teach their belief in public schools, 
for the parents of the scholars are liberals, Jews, Catholics 
and of many different denominations, which is decidedly 
dishonest to take advantage of the parents' wishes at any 
time or at any place. 

Her school was on the mountain side but the voice at 
the Vatican telephones by way of the confessional, the 
doom of the public school, all over this lovely land. 

Not long ago, a small cloud was seen in the horizon of 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 175 

the religious firmament, in St. Louis, in respect to the 
school question. In the controversy among the priests, 
a discovery was made that there is justice and honor 
some cherish for our land, and a schism was about to 
burst forth which would separate many Catholics from 
the mother Church. Some one crosses the ocean in- 
vested with his credentials of the power of a Pope and 
the cloud suddenly disappears, by the magic wand of his 
authority. This great Satolli has control over the 
minds of his subjects, wonderful in its effectiveness. 

Catholics have persecuted the Protestants and the 
Protestants have persecuted the Catholics. In the 
union of Church and State rested the dove of peace and 
good-will to men, when it was the penalty of death for 
a Catholic priest to land on the puritanical shore of 
New England ! 

The Catholics arrive safely upon Freedom's soil and 
are never persecuted ! Why not learn from bitter ex- 
perience the power and glory of the rule of rules, the 
golden rule ! 

The Jews land here and are among our best citizens. 
They are thankful to find a home of peace for their 
weary feet. There is no necessity of a secret organi- 
zation to protect liberty from our neighbors, the Jews. 
The voice of Rabbi Cranskopf, D. D., is the voice of the 
whole Jewish fraternity : 

" Religion is again clamoring for worldly power. It 
is forgetting that its mission is simply to support the 
hand of the State, by a scrupulous attending to its own 
duties, and not to meddle with the State in the exercise 
of its functions. 

"Religion has grown tired of being simply the co- 




176 * THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 

adjutor to the State. It is striving for the supremacy, 
and that spirit is inimical to civilization. 

" Ask for the date of that age when a deep black cloud 
of appalling ignorance rested over the people ; when the 
intellect lay fettered; when the industries were para- 
lized ; when the word \ liberty' was not to be found in 
the vocabulary of the people; when the physical 
sciences were persecuted as being incompatible with re- 
vealed truth; when all researches were prohibited, 
under the severest punishment, as being pernicious to 
piety ; when the grossest superstitions were forced upon 
the people ; when blind credulity and unquestioning be- 
lief were made the first articles of their creed ; when the 
most repulsive corruptions prevailed even within the 
Church itself ; when even the clergy was void of every 
sting of conscience, drunken, rioting in open immorality, 
trafficking with religion for the purpose of enlarging 
their opportunities for debauchery — and the answer will 
be, all this prevailed during the age in which religion 
was the sole mistress of the people." 

The Quakers always speak for liberty of the op- 
pressed, but their olive branch has been rudely torn to 
pieces by the union of Church and State. Here is the 
testimony of one of the descendants of the kind and lov- 
ing Puritans : 

The Pastoral Letter. 

So, this is all; the utmost reach 

Of priestly power the mind to fetter : 
When laymen think, when women preach, 

A war of words, a " pastoral letter.' ' 
Now, shame upon ye, parish popes ! 

Was it thus with those, your predecessors, 
Who sealed with racks, and fire, and ropes, 

Their loving kindness to transgressors ? 

A " pastoral letter," grave and dull ; 
Alas ! in hoof, and horns, and features, 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 177 

How different is your Brookfield bull 
From him who bellows from St. Peter's ! 

Your pastoral rights and power from harm, 
Think ye, can words alone preserve them ? 

Your wiser fathers taught the arm 
And sword of temporal power to serve them. 

Oh glorious days, when Church and State 

Were wedded by your spiritual fathers, 
And on submissive shoulders sate 

Your Wilsons and your Cotton Mathers I 
No vile " itinerant" then could mar 

The beauty of your tranquil Zion, 
But at the peril of the scar 

Of hangman's whip and branding iron. 

Then wholesome laws relieved the church 

Of heretic and mischief-maker, 
And priest and bailiff joined in search, 

By turns, of Papist, witch ani Quaker ! 
The stocks were at each Church's door, 

The gallows stood on Boston Common I 
A Papist's ears the pillory bore, 

The gallow's-rope a Quaker woman 1 

Your fathers dealt not as ye deal, 

With "non professing," frantic teachers; 
They bored the tongue with red-hot steel, 

And flayed the backs of " female preachers.' ' 
Old Newbury, had her fields a tongue, 

And Salem's streets could tell their story, 
Of fainting women dragged along, 

Gashed by the whip, accursed and gory 1 

And will ye ask me, why this taunt 
Of memories sacred from the scorner ? 

And why with reckless hand I -plant 
A nettle on the graves ye honor ? 

Not to reproach New England's dead, 




178 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

This record from the past I summon, 
Of manhood to the scaffold led, 
And suffering and heroic woman. 

No ! for yourselves alone I turn 

The pages of intolerance over, 
That in their spirit, dark and stern, 

Ye haply may your own discover ! 
For, if ye claim the "pastoral right/ * 

To silence Freedom's voice of warning, 
And from your precincts shut the light 

Of Freedom's day around ye dawning; 

If when an earthquake voice of power, 

And signs in earth and heaven are showing 
That forth, in the appointed hour, 

The Spirit of the I/ord is going ! 
And, with that Spirit, Freedom's light 

On kindred tongue, and people breaking, 
Whose slumbering millions, at the sight 

In glory and in strength are waking ! 

When for the sighing of the poor 

And for the needy, God hath risen, 
And chains are breaking, and a door 

Is opening for the souls in prison ! 
If then ye would with puny hands 

Arrest the sacred work of heaven, 
And bind anew the evil bands ._. 

Which God's right arm of power hath riven- 

What marvel that, in many a mind 
Those darker deeds of bigot madness 

Are closely with your own combined, 
Yet "less in anger than in sadness?" 

What marvel, if the people learn 
To claim the- right of free opinion ? 

What marvel, if at times they spurn 
The ancient yoke of your dominion ? 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 179 

A glorious remnant linger yet, 

Whose lips are wet at Freedom's fountains, 
The coming of whose welcome feet 

Is beautiful upon our mountains ! 
Men, who the gospel tidings bring 

Of Liberty and Love forever, 
Whose joy is an abiding spring, 

Whose peace is as a gentle river ! 



Oh, ever may the power which led 

Their way to such a fiery trial, 
And strengthened womanhood to tread 

The wine-press of such self-denial, 
Be round them in an evil land, 

With wisdom and with strength from heaven, 
With Miriam's voice, and Judith's hand, 

And Deborah's song for triumph given 1 

And what are ye, who strive with God 

Against the ark of His salvation, 
Moved by the breath of prayer abroad, 

With blessings for a dying nation ? 
What, but the stubble and the hay 

To perish, even as flax consuming, 
With all that bars His glorious way 

Before the brightness of His coming ! 

And thou, sad angel, who so long 

Hast waited for the glorious token, 
That earth from all her bonds of wrong 

To liberty and light has broken — 
Angel of freedom ! soon to thee 

The sounding trumpet shall be given, 
And over earth s full jubilee 

Shall deeper joy be felt in heaven ! 

John G. WhiTTiKR. 



180 THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 

CHAPTER VII. 

The Clouds of Great Glory. 

According to bible lore the event of Jesus making the 
earth a visit "in clouds of great glory" was to come 
to pass ere the demise of his hearers. Did they 
have the pleasure of receiving a call from their heavenly 
visitor ? Certainly not. From that time down through 
the ages until the present period, some people are still 
gazing at the stars thinking Jesus will come on his mis- 
sion to surprise the sinners ! Nature and God are not 
conservative. Nature and God are no respecter of de- 
nominations. It is the chosen ones of God who are 
always generously disposed towards the sinners ! 

The Hebrews did not recognize Jesus as their de- 
liverer, so they, too, looked for many long centuries for a 
Messiah. A few did appear but they involved them in 
terrible persecutions. 

Their pretenders were overcome showing how false 
their claims and it is to their credit have ceased to look 
for impossibilities. 

Messiahs appear among the Christians and they have a 
following. If a woman leaves husband and babies and 
joins the Messiah band, the Christians are not horrified 
for it says explicitly in the holy book about the division 
of families for the sake of following Jesus. The pre- 
tenders are supposed to be Jesus reincarnated and it is 
very moral for women to follow the modern Jesus. 
Christianity declares the bible teaching binds the mar- 
riage law firmly with this iron chain — " that what God 
has joined together let no man put asunder !" Consis- 
tency thou art, indeed, a jewel of the rarest kind ! 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 181 

Let us imagine the genuine Jesus has arrived, and he 
visits a Protestant Church and hears what the preacher 
has to say. 

The pastor is a representative of true orthodox prin- 
ciples and proclaims with enthusiasm that "heresy is 
the worst of crimes" and the audience should shun a 
heretic as it would the devil and all his host. 

They must be followers of the meek and lowly Jesus, 
if they expected to enter into the pearly gate of paradise. 

The sins of this world were greatly due to the arch- 
enemy, the infidel, who is ever active in promoting dis- 
turbance and unrest in all relations of life. Beware of 
non-believers, for our Church is the only true Church, 
and keep yourselves unspotted from the world. 

These remarks aroused the listener to such an extent, 
he arose with great dignity and informed the preacher 
and his fashionable audience that : 

"I am Jesus, whom the Jews crucified 2000 years 
ago, nearly — I will inform you that I would like to be 
truthfully represented. In the first place, I was re- 
garded as an infidel, by the Jewish fraternity, for trying 
to break their Mosaic laws, consequently, I created a 
sensation and unrest by the independent way I pro- 
claimed my views. I saw cruelty exercised all around 
me. The Sabbath offender was beaten to death for do- 
ing little labor that was injuring no one. I also turned 
the rocks as they were being hurled at defenseless 
woman. 

14 My people believed they were doing right in obey- 
ing the law of God. In their ignorance they really 
supposed it was the inspiration directly from the great 
Jehovah but he had nothing to do with a creed so brutal 
as that manufactured by Mosss. I expected my life 
would be sacrificed in an age of ignorance for interfering 



182 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

with supposed divine laws, but, walking in the line of 
duty to humanity, I boldly led a life that contributed to 
building a new Constitution of human rights that would 
be a better legacy to mankind than a code of blue laws 
that would give naught but misery and degradation. 

"I was no God, neither a demi-god. I claimed re- 
peatedly to be the Son of Man. I was a common man 
with the same desire, that my people should break away 
from a dark creed, that actuated Voltaire, Thomas 
Paine, and Martin Luther. 

" Remember that Moses was jealous of the gods of 
stone and wood and he, too, wished to keep his subjects 
'unspotted from the world.' All denominations are 
surrounded with a jealous ring for fear they will come in 
contact with a new idea or that a little money will go 
into some other Levites exchequer. 

" Moses did wrong to claim that God was jealous for 
that is considered a very low attribute for a mortal to 
possess and how much it degrades the standard of an 
infinite being. 

"I was a wizard according to the Mosaic ragime. 
Moses was jealous of witchcraft. Why ? For the same 
reason that the priesthood in your time are jealous of 
the money paid for value received at the shrine where 
angels love to visit. I, too, when on earth was very 
near the golden gate between the two worlds, hence, my 
com age to dare and do for the right, and to perform the 
divine act of healing, etc., etc. There have been laws in 
the United States instituted to suppress those divinely 
arrayed with the gift of healing, speaking, etc., who 
were endowed as I to establish this natural, beautiful 
belief for the good of humanity. 

"Changing the subject, I see you still have the poor 
with you. You have despised the Jews and cruelly 
persecuted them but they possess humanity sufficient to 
shelter their };o:>r with the arms of love. They do not 
rest heavily upon the State. Although they have clone 
what you consider the cruel deed of murdering a God, 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 183 

yet their standard is high in respect to morals. They 
have occupied grand positions in the different nations, 
and their genius in various professions have risen 
proudly in the annals of fame. You cannot obliterate 
their talents by persecution. 

" Remember this, that the status of morals is lowered 
whenever a denomination undertakes to crush another 
by the cruel rocks of unkindness. Remember this, also, 
that when a denomination ceases to do wrong, that 
it will rise to become an example for the world to fol- 
low in its glorified footsteps. Remember this with the 
memory that is as eternal as the hills, that individu- 
als and nations can be moral without believing that 
I am a God !" 

Notwithstanding he was so modest in his claims the 
millionaires in the congregation ' became aware that the 
great reformer was a mind reader. Said he : 

"What is the object that so many wealthy people at- 
tend Church 1 It is policy, for under the cover of re- 
spectability the hypocrite can further grind the poor 
with greater facility and respectability will uphold him 
in his criminal deeds. 

" If every one that wrought crimes on the high way and 
byways of life that should be in the penitentiary, so- 
ciety would be less in number than it is at present. 
The reformer can find plenty to do in deflecting the 
rocks of the refinement of cruelty in the nineteenth cen- 
tury, as I, in my missionary labors in the period of my 
life. If there had been no crime in high life you 
would not hear the rumbling of the volcano of discontent 
at the great injustice doled out to the poor. If the 
law and the Church were friends to the poor, then they 
would be comparatively happy though not having wealth 
at their command. 

" If the millionaires that had become rich by way of 
fraud were suddenly poor, lacking money t:> buy the a t- 
ual necessities of life most of the time for one winter, would 




184 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

be a lesson they would not forget so long as they lived. 
When such men do arrive in the land of souls, they ex- 
perience all the bitterness they have given to others by 
the most excruciating mental pain until they have ex- 
patiated their crimes which were contracted on the 
plane of earth life. 

" I would not advise the rich to sell all their property 
and give to the needy but it is the duty of all mortals to 
be just with whom they deal 

" Aristocracy would be more humane if it allowed the 
still, small voice of conscience to sway its actions and 
to be humble for it is only through the door of humility, 
to resist temptation and do unto others as you would 
like them do unto you, will be the golden gate through 
which it will pass into perfect happiness and no other. 

" Do not think you can escape the penalty of your sins 
by suddenly believing that I died on the cross as an 
atonement for the sins of mankind ! Do not imagine 
my arms are filled with criminals fresh from the scaffold. 
They have to undergo a course of training and gradually 
they arise from their shadowy condition to the light of 
happiness. 

" In respect to missionary work to foreign lands, you 
are merely giving the pagans their superstition but 
clothed with a difference in names. They have this ad- 
vantage over the Christians in point of better morals, 
hence, it is seldom your propaganda labors meet with 
success. 

" My sayings in the bible are greatly magnified by 
priestly interpolations and this is one in St. Mark, last 
chapter. 

" ' These signs shall follow them that believe : In my 
name they shall take up serpents; and if they drink air/ 
deadly thing it shall not hurt them:' etc. 

" Is there a missionary willing to try the experiment 
of handling a viper 1 Is there one that would drink 
poison to see if he had faith sufficient to withstand the 
poison from overcoming him by death *? 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 185 

" It is recorded that St. Paul could perform this trial 
successfully among the barbarians : When he boldly pro- 
claimed his failing of prevaricating his word cannot be 
relied upon. It is wiser to be truthful at all times for 
it is hurtful to the priesthood and the Churches when- 
ever they are sustained by the decayed pillars of false- 
hood. 

"Baron Hirsh, the philanthropist, presents the finest 
kind of an example for Christians ' to go thou and do 
likewise/ Instead of spending his money to reform the 
heathen he gave $12,500,000 for the benefit of the 
Jews who were flying over the borders of Christian 
Russia as fugitives, and his money was given, also, to 
educate the children that they might become good citi- 
zens of the State. 

" The Khedive of Egypt received a present of thirteen 
thousand pounds sterling for the purpose of erecting a 
monument for himself, What did he do with his 
money 1 Christians would have taken it for a sectarian 
purpose but this mussulman had a public school house 
built for all nationalities in Alexandria. 

"Do not imagine that I have any use for money. 
Clothe the children that they may attend public schools 
but do not invest their minds with wild ideas of the 
great hereafter and above all do not threaten that a 
yawning hades awaits the wrong doer, for they can be 
won by the wand of love in doing right better than by 
way of fear. 

"A father would not be respected if he shoull travel 
from city to city and give money to other children 
rather than his own. You are doing more in the ca ise 
of a divine life by giving your money to the ].oor waifs 
at home. 

" What has superstition wrought for the children of 
the forest? It has inflamed their minds with false 
ideas and the Messiahs are ready to scalp their instruc- 
tors. 

"It is the same spirit that is incorporated in the hear** 



186 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

of the pale-face brethren when the religious wars for 
supremacy has raged with relentless fury on the stage of 
life. There is plenty of missionary work to be done here 
in the United States, that crime may be lessened ,and 
the reputation of the morals be upon a higher standard. 
The pagan world have but little respect for Christian 
America." 

He glanced over the congregation and then resumed 
his remarks : 

" The knickerbockers, a few generations back, derived 
their * blue blood' by toiling and earning their bread by 
'the sweat of their brow. ' 

" To ape aristocratic nobility is deplorable. The chil- 
dren are taught to despise the poor, which is one source 
of creating an army of tyrants. 

"It is also deplorable to witness the various routes 
the people take to reach heaven. Bible scenes are re-en- 
acted to attain the goal by superstition. The mission- 
aries make capital the way the heathen perform sacrifices 
but when children are sacrificed on their altar in their 
own country their voices are hushed. What ! Is that 
kind of religion the golden rule 1 Did I practice aught 
that was impossible ? Christians give me the credit of 
raising the dead. When you study what you think you 
believe for your own spiritual benefit, you will learn that 
I never claimed so monstrous a deed. I never descended 
into the hell the Christians speak about for the education 
of their hearers, for the reason there is no hades only a 
sensible hell of mind. 

" Another false idea, I never was reincarnated. Evo- 
lution travels onward, in the grand scale of being and 
has no time to look backward, but climbs majestically up 
the ladder of progression. 

"Messiahs or any denomination that preaches ' entire 
sanctification,' while you inhabit the house of clay is 
impossible, although you can control yourselves, to a 
great extent. 

"It is impossible for any * Messiah' to personate me. 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 187 

Each one has a separate identity peculiar to themselves 

" I have said before that I had no use for money. If 
my memory serves me correctly, I never erected 
Cathedrals, Churches, neither a school for sectarian pur- 
poses. I wasted no time in schemes to subjugate people 
by the sword. 

" My advice to you at the present time is, to keep 
yourselves unspotted from ignorance, do not throw the 
microscope upon the floor, as the learned Brahman, for 
fear that science would supercede superstition. 

"The Brahmin priest knew that little instrument 
would shake the faith of his followers in the belief of re- 
incarnation if they were allowed to look into a drop of 
water and see the different forms of animalcule life 
swimming in the crystal lake. It is wonderful how 
many millions of souls were swallowed in the life-time of 
only one person. 

"It is wise to acknowledge that atenent is false when 
it is demonstrated to a certainty that it is an error. The 
priesthood had better eat the food of honesty than to 
earn it by helping to rear a Church that is fraud from 
foundation to steeple. Dare to do right, though you are 
expelled from the bigoted ring of ecclesiasticism. Re- 
member that the mind of the bigot contracts in the light, 
like the pupil of the eye, but do not be afraid to be an 
heretic, if need be. Advanced preachers are not all ar- 
raigned before the bar of ecclesiastical injustice which in- 
dicate that the congregations are, also, progressive. 

" St. John says in the last chapter and last verse, 
that if all my deeds were recorded this world was not 
large enough to contain all the books ! Verily truth is 
stranger than fiction ! 

"Reason is a bright light, and when the Churches 
are illuminated with its electric glow, it will be a great 
b.essing to mankind." 

Jesus changed the current of his remarks by saying : 

" That there was a great amount of insinceritv anions: 



188 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

preachers. If the pastor in the pulpit was sincere, his 
neck-tie would remain white, if not, it would soon 
change to black." 

All eyes were observing the neck-tie. The preacher, 
somewhat amazed, had to receive the searching gaze of 
the congregation. The neck-tie remained white. 

Jesus then said that the faces of the audience would 
turn black — all those that were unkind to servants or 
crushed the poor in any way. 

Slowly and surely their faces began to change color 
and each one became blue and from blue to purple and 
they arose and went out of the doors without ceremony ! 

The next visit Jesus made was at the Court of Leo 
XIII. The Vatican seemed like the palace of a king. 
Valets, privy chamberlains, chamberlains, extra, honor- 
ary chamberlains, supernumerary chamberlains, house 
prelates, officers of the Noble Guard guardsmen, offi- 
cers of the Swiss Guard <and Palace Guard, foreign 
honorary chaplains, honorary chaplains, private secre- 
taries, stewards and masters of the horse, many door- 
keepers greeted him, one thousand one hundred and sixty 
persons, who told him they were servants merely in this 
court where resided the Vicar of Christ, the follower of 
the meek and lowly Jesus ! 

At last Jesus was ushered into the room where sat 
Leo XIII upon his throne, surrounded with many Car- 
dinals. Leo ordered his visitor to kneel. Jesus, per- 
fectly self-poised, replied "that he would not crawl to 
any potentate, neither would he crush a woman." 

Leo thought his visitor somewhat singular and told 
him he desired every plebeian to kneel before him as a 
salutation. Jesus said : 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 189 

" I am a plebeian, born of humble parentage, first saw 
daylight in a manger, and am proud to inform you that 
I am a plebeian." 

Said he, with the bearing of a prince : * 

"The golden flood of divinity flows majestically 
through the veins of the plebeian from Homer to Shake- 
speare from Shakespeare to the present. Its matchless 
splindor transcends the crown of kings in a halo that is 
most dazzling to the vision of the inner sense, the spirit." 

Leo's triple crown began to sway back and forth and 
he readjusted it as well as he could and Jesus proceeded 
with his remarks : 

" You have declared the divinity of kings, and that 
Republics cannot stand. I see thrones vanish until 
only twenty-seven monarchies adorn your earth and Re- 
publics in creasing in number to twenty-six. Where is 
your infallibility in declaring so great a libel upon the 
scales of Justice. 1 You i 1 end to throttle the goddess of 
liberty by your Brothers of Good Will — the Thugs of 
your spiritual dominion, — the Jesuits. Every land that 
has been ruled by the Holy Roman Catholic Pope is en- 
deavoring to throw off the yoke and become free. 

„ America is young and having had no experience, you 
are scheming to rule that glorious Republic. Your iron 
footprints can be traced upon the soil of different coun- 
tries for them to read its import. It is a home for the 
oppressed from any nation, but not a refuge for traitors." 

Leo became enraged and with the greatest disdain re- 
plied that: 

11 1 am working for the spiritual benefit of mankind 
and whatever course was pursued it was the supreme 
desire of mine to save souls from endless perdition!" 

Jesus asked his reverence, "What was the course he 
pursued to save souls?' "I 1 elieve in being kind to the 
Catholics and to the poor ! I also believe in influencing 
the mind of children to the doctrines of our holy church 



190 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

before their reasoning faculties are developed which is 
laudable in the estimation of Jesus and the Holy Virgin !" 

Jesus wished to know how it was there were so many 
illiterate children and poor people among his subjects 
when the Jews were well provided for and no poor 
among them ? 

"What is your standing in Ireland? How is it that 
many have broken away from your dominion within the 
past few years ? You demand your revenue when the 
poor are starving. You look on them with no pity and 
sympathize with the oppressor. Some of them are begin- 
ning to see how you love the poor. The more intelli- 
gent Catholics in America are sending their children to 
the public schools where their education is thorough and 
not superficial. In the long reign of the Popes in the 
world, ignorance and superstition has been like weeds run 
wild, and obscured the beautiful flowers of affection for 
home and intelligence for the masses until you have a 
record that is black as midnight. You tried to obliterate 
science by the torch. The statue of Bruno is an object 
lesson which is a page in your history, giving its silent 
testimony to your disgrace and dishonor. Science would 
stand in the way of Church power. Ignorance would be 
the pillars to prop up the flimsy structure. Science is 
the Sampson that will overthrow completely your dynasty. 
I am Jesus, the lowly Nazarene, the Infidel Jew, who, 
for being a friend to the poor, was crucified some two 
thousand years ago upon the cross and have come to 
make you a call in your lovely apartments for the reason 
you are a lover of humanity and you spend your money 
so advantageously where it will do the most good !" 

The Pope was enraged and he wished his guards to 
expel the impostor. At that moment a slight earth- 
quake shook the massive building. The Pope and Car- 
dinals were superstitious and believed they had some 
sins to account for, and began to think of the Great Con- 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 



191 



fessional where all masks were worthless and no partiality 
shown to pomp and power. The pictures swayed back and 
forth, the statues and books were displaced and the triple 
crown rolled to the floor. The costly gems rolled here 
and there as though rejoicing in their liberty, and the 
Pope lay in a swoon on the vibrating throne. 

Jesus soon stood by the statue of Bruno. 

"I have pity for you, Bruno," said Jesus, " for I know 
what it is to suffer excruciating pain by those making 
the greatest professions of piety ! The humble and the 
pure in heart shall be exalted when they arrive on the 
crystalline shore, but the ones that have taken life in the 
name of divinity will not be exempt from the penalty 
of suffering for their sins and expatiating their crimes 
by repentance and good deeds. By the divine law of 
love and justice they return to earth in clouds of great 
glory and impress mankind with their celestial ideas and 
are gradually raising the darkness of sin from earth that 
it may vanish in the sunlight of truth and good will 
one toward another in home life, in society, in the Church 
and in the State." 



CHAPTER VIII. 

Prayer. 

The fanatics in all ages are aggressive. When reason 
holds the balance of power in the mind then no faculty 
runs riot out of its proper orbit and mankind is safe. 

The dogmas of fear and a full faith in the eflicacy of 
prayer have been taught with its telling influence upon 
the unthinking world. 

i Preachers understand that reason must be lulled to 
sleep by singing, speaking of death-bed scenes and 
prayer ere they can fasten ecclesiastical chains upon 



192 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

their victims. The pastors reveal the fact that children 
and young people under thirty years of age are easily 
caught but not the case with those who have arrived at 
maturer years. Why is this ? They know that reason 
is undeveloped. At every station on life's highway they 
set a trap to ensnare the unwary which must be re- 
garded in the light of injustice and very much like dis- 
honesty. The young devotee is prepared to believe that 
by faith saloons can be annihilated by lightning and the 
Churches will be exempt from the wrath of God. But 
is this the fact? Churches are often struck by light- 
ning, and seldom, if ever, is the saloon visited by divine 
vengeai c \ Nature's laws are inexorable and do not re- 
spect the desires of any mortal Earthquakes engulf the 
Church that is filled with Christians beseeching God to 
be merciful, and save them from death. 

Exaggerated faith cannot always exist against such 
fearful odds. A revulsion of sentiment must be the re- 
sult, disgust follows and the Church member bids fare- 
well to the Church forever. This is demonstrated in the 
long poem "Lost — a Woman's Faith." The following 
lines are excerpts showing how grievous is the fall of 
faith: 

" When the waters rose fast in our cottage, 

Trusting God, I crushed down my alarm, 
Thinking He who'd grieve o'er a sparrow, 

Would save trusting mortals from harm. 
But the water rose faster and higher, 

The little ones screamed in their fear; 
How I prayed to God in my anguish, 

But, ah ! there was no God to hear. 
•• There was nothing could swerve or turn me 

From my faith in my mother's belief, 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 193 

'Twas my joy in the hours of rejoicing, 

My ' solace and refuge in grief. ' 
When doubts uninvited would enter, 

Their challenge, I firmly withstood, 
But they conquered then, and forever, 

The day of the Johnstown flood/ * 

Prayer may be carried so far in the domain of enthu- 
siasm that it is not in accordance with good manners. To 
call another a " sinner" is a breach in the divine law of 
justice that is truly appalling. Fear of an angry God 
and endless punishment obliterates any delinquency about 
Church etiquette. Mrs. Livermore addressed the men 
in prison as " brothers". Tears of gratitude were shed, 
showing the germ of divinity sparkles in every soul. 

Prayers are answered many times when it is in the 
line of natural law. When a human being is suffering 
for food, fuel or clothing, the appeal for assistance 
reaches the conscious personality of some angel friend, 
or friends, and they influence some one to help the 
needy. This is certainly better employment than to be 
gazing at the great Jehovah through eternity, playing 
on harps and praising his holiness ! 

Prof. Le Conte says : 

"At the bottom of every man's heart is an indistinct, 
indistinguishable belief in a supreme something which is 
ever present and never over shadowed. All the various 
forms of nature to which we apply various names is 
God. They are but divine activity. Gravitation is but 
one of the forces of God, and evolution is but the divine 
power of constant creation." 

To force a child to pray and to tell it to go through 
that form of worship or the devil will catch it, cann >t 
possibly do the child any good, and, furthermore, fear is 



U 



1$4 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDElt. 

hurtful to the child, physically. lb poisons the blood 
and it is simply a crime, for, sometimes, it ends in death 
by way of long illness, and again, in a very short time. 
Animals have been known to die very suddenly by fear 
alone. Again, it was reported in the " Chronicle' 7 that 
fear drives people to hopeless insanity, as in the case of 
a young lady who recently went insane by believing that 
the devil was in the house and she constantly chased her 
imaginary foe until they committed her to the Agnew's 
Insane Asylum. Her name is Mary L. Garcia, aged 22 
years and had resided with her mother at Niles. 

When Jesus took the child in his arms, he blessed it 
and said the loving words, " For of such are the kingdom 
of heaven." He said nothing about baptism or what 
denomination the child's parents believed in. 

The preachers preach that the Insane Asylums contain 
many demented Spiritualists. In being unjust to 
others uncovers the fact that the papers do not have the 
opportunity very often of giving to their readers that 
kind of news. How often do the items appear, however, 
of religious insanity. Here is a few lines that gives the 
unthinking Church members a true view of the case. It is: 

Dr. E. W. Saunders said: 

"I have had brought to my attention for treatment 
or consultation three well defined case of 'religious 
mania.'" 

Further on he says : 

"It is a warning of danger, nothing more, nothing less. 
So far as I can judge, Mrs. Wood worth is possessed of 
hypnotic or mesmeric powers. Emotional people are 
swept swiftly into the whirl of excitement and surrender 
to an excess of religious zeaL The madhouse awaits them 
assuredly if they are not dragged from the fatal influence." 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN, 195 

Another item is that : 

" Miss Arthusa Waller, 2243 Penn street, Kansas City, 
hopelessly insane." 

In this case Sam Jones is the preacher. It would be 
wise that missionary money be used for keeping the reli- 
giously insane. 

Religion creates aberration of mind while under un- 
due excitement. Obsession sometimes occurs in such 
cases and in bible times the unwise spirit was called 
devil and sometimes spirit. 

Jesus had the power to exorcise the unwelcome 
visitor. The same power is with us to-day and the 
healers understanding the mysteries of the occult, a 
natural law simply, reason with the spirit, and bidding 
it kindly to arise from its cloudy, mental condition, 
sets the insane free from its unseen oppressor. 

Jesus was very much opposed to prayer in public. It 
was too sacred a moment to him to make a display of 
false sanctity before the public. He always went into 
seclusion, thereby he became susceptible to divine influ- 
ences, for his sincerity placed him higher in the scale of 
'being, and through the gateway of humility he became 
exalted. 

If Jesus was here at the present time, and should be 
successful in getting a position as Chaplain in one of our 
Legislatures, he, being somewhat practical, would waste 
no time in advising Deity that his duty consisted in 
blessing the government officials, but would astonish the 
politicians by unfolding their many shortcomings. He 
would say : 

" Your names appearing under the head of * Fraud* in 



196 THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 

the newspapers, was a disgrace to any nation that pro- 
fessed to be my followers." 

The invocations rendered by advanced preachers and 
some liberals, picture Infinity with the highest attributes 
of perfection. They strive, by right living, to be worthy 
of receiving more light and wisdom that they may ar- 
rive at a conscious Nirvana of rest and peace which is 
obtained by practicing the golden rule in all earthly 
transactions. This is the way to enter into the pearly 
gate of The Garden of Eden where the flowers bloom for- 
ever in the soul when love is cherished for that which is 
divine, pure and holy. 



CHAPTER IX. 

Temperance. 

Numbers xxviii :7, states : " And the drink offering 
thereof shall be the one-fourth part of an hin for the one 
lamb : in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong 
wine to be poured unto the Lord for a drink offering." 

The question arises who drank the offering of wine 1 
It must be strong wine. No lecture against stimulants 
here from the Great Jehovah. Undoubtedly the priests 
and Moses enjoyed the treat behind the scenes ! 

Did Jesus preach in favor of the temperance cause ? 
Did he have numerous followers to petition the govern- 
ment to enact prohibition laws in regard to having a 
chance to persecute people which would be followed by 
other laws to annoy innocent individuals for the sake of 
a difference of opinion 1 Here is a verse^— Jeremiah xiii :14, 

" Thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord, Be- 
hold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land 3 even the 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 197 

kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and 
the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with 
drunkenness !" 

No pagan was ever known to leave an influence like 
that verse for the good of the race. 

Saloons are with us. They seem as permanent as 
the hills. Saloon-keepers are not necessarily bad men. 
So long as the liquor traffic is a lucrative business they 
will flourish in the heart of civilization. 

Experience has taught the nation that high license is 
to be preferred to prohibition. 

Saloons are necessary for the tax-payer to economize 
his expenditures so the saloons can flourish. The tem- 
perate, industrious people can well afford to go without 
little extra comforts of life so that they may enjoy the 
opportunity of paying the expenses of the criminal courts 
accruing from first-class carousals by drunkenness. Taxes 
to pay for Drunkards' Homes and Orphan Asylums, desti- 
tute families, etc., etc., are paid cheerfully that the sa- 
loons may ornament the streets of every city and town 
of this civilized nation ! When the tax-payers positively 
refuse to carry the burdens that should be borne by the 
saloon-keepers, then the saloon traffic could not pay ex- 
penses and they would necessarily close their doors for- 
ever. In Denmark, " it is the law that all drunken per- 
sons shall be taken to their homes in carriages provided 
at the expense of the publican who sold them the last 
glass." 

Men must know, also, they are responsible for the 
morals of their children. It is a fearful idea to cast an 
evil influence over the family — a shadow that is cruel in 
the extreme. In Melbourne the man has protected him- 




198 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

self behind the law; if his wife is under the influence of 
liquor the third time, he can separate from his marriage 
vows without any trouble. Why not have such a law 
for women also 1 At any rate a woman should say to 
her husband when he reels homeward after imbibing too 
much stimulants: 

"Take your choice between liquor or I; I shall not 
have my peace destroyed, my life wrecked by your failure 
in doing by me as you would not like me to devastate our 
home by a disgusting habit." 

In turning the mental telescope to other lands we find: 
" The Buddhists, says George A. Shufeldt, with 300,- 
000, 000 followers, and the Mohammedans with 250,000,- 
000, drunkenness is unknown. The so-called heathens of 
the world, forbid the use of alcoholic drinks and crush in- 
temperance, and we Christians tolerate and legalize it. 
We send missionaries to these people to convert them 
to our religious civilization." 

The " Journal of a Traveler," writes that, "The Turks 
are better than the Christians. Wine and spirits are for- 
bidden in the koran, and coffee is the universal beverage." 
By way of fancy's sweet medium we see two men walk- 
ing in a city in the United States. They are noble speci- 
mens of the human race, which we infer by their dignified 
bearing and intellectual features. A crowd follows them 
curious to know about the august strangers. The for- 
eigners stop before a saloon. Buddha remarks to Confu- 
cius : 

"What a blot upon the page of history," pointing to 
the saloon. " Our worthy brother Jesus did not teach 
temperance, hence, this creed was more imperfect than 
the ones we gave for the moral guidance of the race. 

" Think how our followers maintained their integrity, 
in this respect, through so many ages, to fall at last when 



THE NEW GAI^EN OF E2>EN. 



199 



Lot the Christians 
redeem the world 



dashed against the Christian creed ! 
reform themselves ere they try to 
called paganism. 

" When the lives of the ancient avaters of the world 
are stripped of the robes of superstition, then the 
ethics that were taught will have a more exalting effect 
upon the human race. In passing through an earthly 
career there are different routes to take in respect to be- 
liefs. If you believe that which is wrong the road is 
rocky and full of thorns. But when traveling in the 
right path everything is pleasantness and peace. 

" The only universal deluge that I know aught about 
is the vitiated influence of poisonous superstition and 
that deluge was one of blood and tears. That same su- 
perstition would like to make a tiger's paw of temperance 
to use the law as an instrument to again further its 
schemes in tyranny. Why not imprison every human 
being for fear they would commit murder] Teach the 
young to rise in the dignity of manhood and woman- 
hood's estate and they will become like the Himalaya in 
grandeur and sublimity of spirit. " 

A Chinaman recognizing Confucius, pro^rated him- 
self upon the side walk in adoration of the great re- 
former. Confucius said to the Chinaman : 

"Arise, my son, I am no God to worship. Every 
nation" said he, " has had one or more avaters who were 
of the earth earthy, but wished to give to humanity a 
standard of morals that would help build character for 
the a r \ Jicenienfc of mankind. 

"The rust of superstition has dimmed the brilliancy 
of the gol ten rale, bat within the next century the light 
of this divine creed will dispel the sha low of super- 
stition — where hatred now exists love will take its 
place." 

As Confucius ceased spsaking, Buddha looked toward 
a public school house; said he : 

" We taught that ignorance was the nisjlit of the mind. 



200 THE NEW GUJRDEN OF EDEN. 

We both taught the importance of knowledge in all its 
avenues through the groves of intellect. We would like 
to see its beneficent branches extend, like the banyan 
tree, and shelter the multitude of earth. It is knowl- 
edge and morals that are the true redeemers of man- 
kind. They are your saviors from ignorance and crime 
The emblem of liberty floating so grandly upon the tem- 
ple of knowledge has more than one signification. It is 
a symbol of love of home by being temperate in all things, 
and then you are better citizens of the State, " 



CHAPTER X 

Tobacco. 

Is tobacco a n ecessity ? Is it a healthy or cleanly habit 
Does its use give an influence for good ? Does it help 
the young to get employment 1 Does it give happiness 
or annoyance to others ? Is it a sign of a very high civ- 
ilization ? Is it a success financially to invest in tobacco 
or cigars ? 

A Little Logic. 

"Father, do you remember that mother asked for two 
dollars this morning ? " 

" Yes, my child; what of it ? » 

" Do you remember that mother didn't get the two 
dollars?" 

"Yes, and I remember what little girls don't think 
about." 

"What's that, father?" 

" I remember that we are not rich. But you are in a 
brown study; what is my darling thinking about?" 

"I am thinking how much a cigar costs." 

" Why, it costs ten cents; not two dollars by a Ion* 
shot." 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 201 

"But ten cents three times a day is thirty cents." 

"That's as true as the multiplication table.' ' 

" And there are seven days in a week % And seven 

times thirty cents are two hundred and ten cen s ? " 
"Hold on ! I'll surrender. Here, take the two dollars 

to your mother and tell her I'll do without cigars for a 

week." 

" Thank you, father; but if you would only say a year — 

it would save more than a hundred dollars. We would 

have shoes and dresses, and mother a nice bonnet, and 

lots of things." 

" Well, to make a little girl happy, I will say a year." 
" Oh ! that will be so nice; but wouldn't it be about as 

easy to say always 1 " 

And the father said, "Daughter, I will do as you 

say."— [The Old Homestead. 



CHAPTER XL 

Symbols. 

In the first part of this book, chapter forty-third, the 
symbols were previously given in a lecture by Mrs. Cora 
L. V. Richmond, before a Children's Progressive Ly- 
ceum in Chicago, March 3rd, 1879. The symbolical 
language is a beautiful way to instruct people of all 
ages. Symbols are received clairvoyantly, which prove a 
great blessing in many ways* They can be impressed 
upon the mind while sleeping, as the snake is given as an 
enemy, and that being universally recognized as a fact, 
then others can come to denote various events about to 
transpire. 

Symbols tell with unerring effect the moral status of a 
person. 

If symbols are welcomed by the recipient they prove a 




y i 



202 THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 

great blessing in social and business life — make this 

I "vale of tears" to gradually change into a condition of 

I mind almost angelic while living on earth. Yet, there are 

many that honestly believe that only fraud is practiced 

at the shrine of the new dispensation. 

If fraud is used, remember all classes of society are in- 
tensely human, and when it is eliminated from every mind, 
then will the delicate wires, or electric lines, cease to vi- 
brate by discordant elements — consequently, better results 
obtained. A dogmatic believer seldom receives aught 
that is satisfactory, but an honest skeptic will be fortu- 
nate in receiving the truth that life has a continued ex- 
istence and is made happy thereby. He is neither too 
credulous nor too incredulous, but weighs the messages in 
reason's scales. 



CHAPTER XII. 

Eden of Glory. 

Cousin says, " that nation or people are most advanced 
in civilization which confers the largest liberty upon wo- 
man." 

E-ev. J. D. Fulton would civilize the world in this 
fashion: 

" Woman is made for man. By her use to him she is 
to be measured. Her equality with her master is not to 
be thought of. It is against Scripture. Her inferiority 
appears in the moral realm. She was the first tempter, 
the means employed by Satan in leading astray the un- 
wary." 

The above effusion was printed in a little tract in " Har- 
per's Magazine," July, 1869. 
* Another representative, a colored driver, gave his idea 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 203 

of the woman question. He was asked by a gifted wo- 
man, living in Lincoln, Nebraska, to vote in favor of the 
Constitutional Amendment, giving the ballot to woman. 
He smiled broadly, and went off to the polls with these 
words: " I'd like to, but really, I don't think women's 
got the capacity !" 

Can women be so very closely related to Satan, as Mr. 
Pulton states, when her face is seldom seen behind the 
bars in a penitentiary 1 

Again, a representative of the negro race should be the 
last one to blockade woman's pathway to liberty when 
" Uncle Tom's Cabin" paved the way to their freedom by 
exposing so graphically the tragedies, grief, tears, and 
shame of slavery. Two million copies sold in two years 
was a gift for humanity that was of priceless value. 
Then again, liberal and quaker ladies spoke upon the 
rostrum for the cause of humanity and were followed by 
the howling mob which revealed the ghastly fact they, 
too, were slaves. 

Lucretia Mott was elected as a delegate with Wendell 
Phillips and others, to attend a slavery convention at 
London. The men were admitted but she could not be. 
The noble workers who went with her tried in vain for 
the assembly to admit this eloquent pleader for human 
rights. She wore her clanking . chains back to America 
and in 1848 the first convention was organized at 
Seneca Falls, but, before its final sitting, it was trans- 
ferred to Rochester. This convention was convened in 
the interest of white slavery — not black, but white ! It 
revealed this fact in the attitude that was shown by 
harsh words and epithets of the press and society. They 
never ceased their labors, however, and in thirty years 




204 THE NEW GABDEN OP EDEN. 

after, the "Democrat and Chronicle" gave them this 
tribute : 

" Wyoming has conferred the suffrage. Its advocates 
have presented their arguments in Congressional halls 
and legislative assemblies. They have won many con- 
spicuous publicists to their cause, and for the years they 
have spent in the work they have made remarkable 
progress. The principle of this political agitation is the 
one so dear to the revolutionary fathers — ' No taxation 
without representation. ' There is justness in the plea, 
and fortified in the assurance that they are right they 
will not lay down their arms until the banner is securely 
planted upon the last bulwark of popular prejudice. 

" As a matter of fact there has been a wonderful 
quickening of public thought on the. woman's rights 
movement, and the direct and the indirect effects of that 
agitation, whether graven in legislative enactments or 
assimulated by progressive society, all must concede are 
of permanent value and beneficent potency. To Miss 
Susan B. Anthony, whose singular executive tact has 
turned many a dark hour into day ; to Mrs. Elizabeth 
Cady Stanton, whose judicial skill, fine legal discrimi- 
nation and splendid rhetoric has held the movement in its 
proper orbit, and to Lucretia Mott, whose unquenchable 
fervency has never known despair in defeat— to these three 
earnest, heroic women, the cause is indebted to a degree 
which can scarcely be over-estimated." 

It was the eloquence of two women as speakers who 
helped to lift the republican party into power. One was 
a descendant of the quakers, Miss Anna Dickenson, and 
Mrs. Hardings Brittian, Ja liberal. Their influence over 
the audiences were more powerful than any two men 
speakers in the field. Anna Dickenson went into Penn- 
sylvania where no man dared to go. A bullet sped by 
her and on account of her bravery, the tumult subsided, 
and listened to hear what she had to say, and they gave 



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cheer after cheer for the message she so eloquently gave 
for the nation's welfare. Mrs. Hardings Brittian by her 
masterly eloquence wherever she went was given the first 
position as orator. 

As the mental telescope is turned in the direction of 
Wyoming, there stands out in bold relief an object lesson 
that proves the fallacy of exclaiming that woman's rights 
are a failure. 

It is to the honor of William H. Bright, a Democrat, 
who instituted the woman suffrage plank in the territorial 
constitution of Wyoming. He was actuated upon prin- 
ciple alone, for his wife held a different view of the matter. 

The women have not disgraced the privileges of the 
franchise, and holding the balance of power, no bai men 
can be elected. It is now a quarter of a century since 
Wyoming gave the ballot to woman and many testimo- 
nies from governors and prominent men concur in the 
wisdom of the woman's right to be a citizen of this great 
republic . 

A clipping from the "Nevada State Journal," Jan. 13, 
1894, Judge Biner of Wyoming, says: 

"Equal suffrage has proved a great success by pu- 
rifying politics. Politicians who are inclined to use cor- 
rupt means to accomplish a purpose have baen suppressed, 
and only honest men can be elect3cl to office, because as 
soon as the women find out that a can Udate is dishonest 
they proceed to tight him regardless of politics. The per 
cent, of woman who vote are as large as the men." 

It is self-evident that the taxes that women pay in 
Wyoming does nob keep corrupt men in luxury. 
Neither is their earnings used as brib >s 
laws that are inten led for the crood of all. 



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208 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

Henry George writes : 

"The natural right of a woman to vote is just as 
clear as that of man. Since she is called on to obey the 
laws she ought to have a voice in making them. In 
fact, the failure that men have made of making laws, 
ought to lead them to ask whether the finer intuitions 
of women are not as much needed in the management of 
public affairs as they are in the affairs of the family. 
The man who scorns the advice of women is anything 
but a wise man." 

Colorado has done wisely in following the example of 
Wyoming. Kansas may give woman the privilege of 
being a citizen at the next election. The women 
mayors in the different cities in Kansas have proved a 
success in executive and financial abilities. Over fifty 
years ago women were completely cowed by circum- 
stances and really thought they were a failure in regard 
to. not having a mind capable of being cultivaed. The 
Mohammedan ladies have one privilege, that of going to' 
the cemetery every Friday (their Sunday) and talk 
freely with each other. A chapel is on the grounds and 
they go in, perhaps, to tell Allah they are pleased they 
have no souls to worry over ! Our grandmothers had only 
one source of mental culture, which was termed "gossip," 
if they indulged in a social chat. To converse on various 
themes, is, indeed, a great source of instruction for 
woman as well as for man. 

Young girls were once a drug in the market^ not know- 
ing how to earn a living, naturally were waiting for offers 
of marriage and a man was as Edward Bellamy says, 
"like a sultan surrounded by languishing beauties." 

But he states: 

"In the year 2,000 no man, whether lover or husband, 



THE NEW GARDEN OP EDEN. 207 

may hope to win the favor of maid or wife save by desert. 
While the poet, justly apprehending the ideal proprieties, 
has always persisted in representing man at the feet of 
woman, woman has been, in fact, the dependent of man. 
" Nationalism will justify the poet and satisfy the eter- 
nal fitness of things by bringing him to his marrow-bones 
in earnest. But, we may be sure that in the year 2,000 
he will need no compulsion to assume that attitude." 

Young ladies of the present era being more independ- 
ent by the many ways for becoming self-supporting, 
answer questions according to an item in the " Health 
Journal:" 

" Did she love him well enough to live in a cottage 
with him t Was she a good cook ? Could she make her 
own clothes ?" etc. 

The young lady said that before she answered his ques- 
tions, she would tell him of some negative virtues she 



" She never drank, smoked or chewed ; never owed a 
bill to a laundress or tailor ; never stayed out all night 
playing billiards; never lounged on the street corners 
and ogled giddy girls ; never ' stood in with the boys' for 
cigars and wine suppers. 

"Now," said she, rising indignantly, "I am assured 
that you do all these things, and yet you expect all the 
virtues in me, while you do not possess any yourself. I 
1 can never be your wife ;" and she bowed him out and left 
him on the door-step a wiser man. 

The way to correct the divorce question is to improve 
the ideas of the obligations incident to a true and lasting 
marriage. Sensational novels have wrought their mis- 

Jo o 

chief when the young lady expects a devoted hero in the 
character of her husband. Not expecting to meet his 
distorted ideas in regard to the word "obey," the crash is 



208 a. HE Nj^ GARDBN 0F BDEKt 

sure to come and her beautiful ideals have faded from 
her heart forever. 

" Words kill," said Judge Sedgwick, in nfe conclusions 
in a divorce suit, and they certainly do. There is no ap- 
parent death, but, love, perhaps, has flown and the 
smile covers a tear, too often, in the home that could be 
a heaven upon earth when the law of love and kindness 
is the rule. At the altar, the true hero and heroine be- 
gin when the pledges are taken to constantly fulfill dur- 
ing life the requirements to love and respect, each the 
other, the same as in courtship days. 

While women have been climbing out of past condi- 
tions, into the present, wherein she has gained wonderful 
success, and the achievements are founded upon merit, 
still she will pursue her journey like the Amazons who as- 
cend a taU hut, thickly covered with thorns from prickly 
pears and cacti until she reaches the top, where the laurel 
wreath awaits her denoting happiness and content ever 
after. ^ 

The future holds in store for her success, in a political 
way for her eloquence will yet reverberate through the 
halls of justice with telling power. She wiU be teen in 
all the departments of government to the executive chair 
and fraud will vauish as mist before the suulight. Haz- 
ing is unknown when young ladies are admitted in the 
same college with young men. 

The Catholic Church is destined to change its rule in 
respect to the celibacy of its priesthood. The marriage 
relat.on would change their present course into one of 
harmony and refinement. 



THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 209 

In the Eden of the future it will be considered a crime 
to utter an unkind word. 

Abraham Lincoln never would have arisen to the height 
he did in the nation's esteem and affection if he had been 
indifferent to the effect of his words. He never said an 
unkind word to his step-mother and she loved him equally 
with her own son. 

A college snobs who deal largely with sneers at those 
he thinks are beneath him socially, can never become the 
peer of Abraham Lincoln in honor and fame 

The secret, occult power in the life consecrated to 
kindness, honesty and justice is embodied in a glorious 
atmosphere that is a light from the great Sun of Divinity. 

The Oncoming Eden of Glory, 
by (the i<atb) prof. wiijjam denton, 

We travel not back for the Eien of old, 

Bright garden so famous in story, 
But forward, to gain with the noble and bold, 

The oncoming Eden of Glory. 

Its gates are aye open, and no cherub stands 

To guard with a flame-sword its portals ; 
But angelic bands are outstretching their hands 

To welcome home timorous mortals. 

On low-bending trees hang ambrosial fruits 
'Mid leaves for the sick nations' healing : 

And Paradise birds, breathing music like lutes, 
Are heavenly secrets revealing. 

There famishing spirits, unfed by a crumb, 

Who secretly pine in their sorrow, 
Shall banquet with gods in that Eden to come, 
Unhaunted by thoughts of to-morrow. 



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210 THE NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. 

The weary soul there on the flowery bank lies ; 

Peace henceforth he claims for a mother ; 
The sleep of a baby steals over his eyes 

And angels think dreams for their brother. 
****** 
There Love, like the sun, sheds his beams upon all, 

And soul-buds expand into flowers ; 
Spring brightens to summer, but winter and fall 

Breathe not on its amaranth bowers. 

We travel not back, then, for Kden of old, 

Bright garden so famous in story ; 
But forward, to gain with the noble and bold„ 

This oncoming Bden of Glory. 



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